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Originally Posted by acprinter
I live in the California Sierra Foothills at an elevation of 1500 feet, just below the snow. Over our back fence is wide open space for maybe 20 or 30 miles to the next town of a population of only a few hundred. To the other side of us is Sacramento, CA 50 miles away and unfortuneately the wildlife find the politicians poor eating and don't go there.
A Merlin is a Hawk.
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I lived in the Sierras (at about 8,000 feet) for about two years working in the local hospital and doing search and rescue.
A bear got into the hospital kitchen one time and really trashed the place. There was a big window into the kitchen from one of the inner hallways, and we just all stood there transfixed watching the destruction.
Luckily, it was on one of those days when we didn't have many patients, so it was no big deal to have most of the staff standing in one place just watching the show.
Now that I think of it, however, I have seen a lot more wildlife living in the Hill Country of Texas than I typically saw in the Sierras. Although, the population where I lived was a little more concentrated than it is here. I think, even baseline, there were more people living in that town year round than in all of Llano County.