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Originally Posted by Hitch
We have a lot of this "wildlife balancing." We (as may of yo may recall) have coyotes, bobcats, Great Horned Owls, a variety of otherowns, red-tailed hawks and golden eagles, snakes of many varieties (rattlers and kings, the usual sorts, bullsnakes, yadda) and the like.
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Hitch
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I don't know how long it's been since you've visited NJ, but we have a pretty healthy population of
eastern coyotes these days. In fact, there's a pack a couple of blocks away that I used to walk past at night when I had Shadow, my German shepherd. Eastern coyotes don't seem to be too interested in mice, but hope springs eternal!
Our snakes include copperheads -- a nearby neighbor was hospitalized last year when she was bitten twice by one. They'd be happy with mice, but I was hoping more for milk snakes, corn snakes, rat snakes, etc. (Our neighbors have no idea how many snakes live in the woods out back.)
(They're not much good for mouse control, but we also have quite a few black bears these days. I encountered one in my back yard a few years ago, just a bit too close for comfort. Back in the 70s I worked for Fish & Game, and for my last few months with them I had a truck and picked up the roadkill deer in four northern counties. I had to pick up a bear on I-80, and I didn't believe it until I got there and saw it for myself. They've been busy multiplying since then!)
But, in the meantime, the traps are working. I just have to buy more peanut butter.