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Index of Subjects --980202461-1544761175-1357393800=:61256 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Well said RickThe thing about coyotes and all other wild animals that liven= ear populated areas is that there is lots of noise. A few more noise makers= doesn't even alarm them seriously. Why if fireworks were to scare coyotes o= ut of anarea, there would be none around here after New Years Eve!The inter= esting thing is that there is more danger by a considerable marginin crossi= ng a Halifax=A0street than posed by coyotes but folks don't seemed scared t= o cross the street.Hard to figure!Paul --- On Sat, 1/5/13, Rick Whitman <dendroica.caerulescens@gmail.com> wrote: From: Rick Whitman <dendroica.caerulescens@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Coyote and deer carcass. To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Received: Saturday, January 5, 2013, 5:29 AM Barrett Lake is well out along Beaverbank Road. Even on a map you can see that there is all kinds of habitat in the immediate area. Those who live in that area are living in dreamland if they doubt that every one of them have had coyotes right in their backyards, at night, at one time or another. Deer too, of course. To think that DNR could scare coyotes out of this area with even semi-permanent success is a farce. Yes, the residents could be advised. They could be advised that they have chosen to live within and adjacent to coyote habitat. From time to time they will see deer and coyotes. When a specific coyote is seen right in a backyard during the daytime, or when one approaches humans anywhere in a clearly aggressive way, DNR has a role to play. Any response taken to a coyote out in the middle of a lake, trying to get a bit of deer meat, would be pandering to ignorance of the biological reality all around us, and nothing more. Rick. On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Dusan Soudek <soudekd@ns.sympatico.ca> wro= te: >=A0 =A0 I understand that he deer carcass is near a suburban residential a= rea. It > may not be entirely unreasonable of DNR to try to scare the coyotes away > from the neighbourhood, rather than shoot them... But one could also argu= e > for doing nothing, except for perhaps advising the local residents of the > situation. >=A0=A0=A0Dusan Soudek --980202461-1544761175-1357393800=:61256 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <table cellspacing=3D"0" cellpadding=3D"0" border=3D"0" ><tr><td valign=3D"= top" style=3D"font: inherit;">Well said Rick<div>The thing about coyotes an= d all other wild animals that live</div><div>near populated areas is that t= here is lots of noise. A few more noise makers</div><div>doesn't even alarm= them seriously. Why if fireworks were to scare coyotes out of an</div><div= >area, there would be none around here after New Years Eve!</div><div>The i= nteresting thing is that there is more danger by a considerable margin</div= ><div>in crossing a Halifax <span style=3D"font-size: 10pt;">street th= an posed by coyotes but folks don't seemed scared to cross the street.</spa= n></div><div><span style=3D"font-size: 10pt;">Hard to figure!</span></div><= div>Paul</div><div><br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 1/5/13, Rick Whitman <i><dendr= oica.caerulescens@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style=3D"bord= er-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">= <br>From: Rick Whitman <dendroica.caerulescens@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [Nat= ureNS] Coyote and deer carcass.<br>To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca<br>Received:= Saturday, January 5, 2013, 5:29 AM<br><br><div class=3D"plainMail">Barrett= Lake is well out along Beaverbank Road. Even on a map you can<br>see that = there is all kinds of habitat in the immediate area. Those<br>who live in t= hat area are living in dreamland if they doubt that every<br>one of them ha= ve had coyotes right in their backyards, at night, at<br>one time or anothe= r. Deer too, of course. To think that DNR could<br>scare coyotes out of thi= s area with even semi-permanent success is a<br>farce. Yes, the residents c= ould be advised. They could be advised that<br>they have chosen to live wit= hin and adjacent to coyote habitat. From<br>time to time they will see deer= and coyotes.<br><br>When a specific coyote is seen right in a backyard dur= ing the daytime,<br>or when one approaches humans anywhere in a clearly aggressive way,<br>DNR has a role to play. Any response taken to a= coyote out in the<br>middle of a lake, trying to get a bit of deer meat, w= ould be pandering<br>to ignorance of the biological reality all around us, = and nothing<br>more.<br><br>Rick.<br><br>On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:19 AM, D= usan Soudek <<a ymailto=3D"mailto:soudekd@ns.sympatico.ca" href=3D"/mc/c= ompose?to=3Dsoudekd@ns.sympatico.ca">soudekd@ns.sympatico.ca</a>> wrote:= <br>> I understand that he deer carcass is near a suburban = residential area. It<br>> may not be entirely unreasonable of DNR to try= to scare the coyotes away<br>> from the neighbourhood, rather than shoo= t them... But one could also argue<br>> for doing nothing, except for pe= rhaps advising the local residents of the<br>> situation.<br>> &= nbsp; Dusan Soudek<br></div></blockquote></div></td></tr></table> --980202461-1544761175-1357393800=:61256--
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