Re: [Mpls] Urban Wildlife

2003-07-29 Thread David Shove
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Susan Maricle wrote: --- Jim MCGUIRE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have friends who have chickens in their backyard. They live in Longfellow and have had the chickens for 4 or 5 years now. SAM: That's wild! (No pun intended.) I didn't know that poultry were allowed

Re: [Mpls] Urban Wildlife

2003-07-29 Thread David Shove
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Steve Brandt wrote: Do anyone else have suggestions for how to fend off fish-hungry raccoons? Pronto-Pups. One PP and the raccoon will never return. Trust me. --David Shove Roseville TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't

Re: [Mpls] Urban Wildlife

2003-07-28 Thread Susan Maricle
This is more rural wildlife than urban wildlife, but one year my husband found a rooster in the middle of Nicollet in south Mpls. (A refugee from a cockfighting house, perhaps?) It took him 20 minutes to catch the bird with his jacket. He brought him home in the truck and we kept him in the old

Re: [Mpls] Urban Wildlife

2003-07-28 Thread Jim MCGUIRE
Original Message Follows From: Susan Maricle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mpls] Urban Wildlife Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 02:51:09 -0700 (PDT) This is more rural wildlife than urban wildlife, but one year my husband found a rooster in the middle of Nicollet in south

RE: [Mpls] Urban Wildlife

2003-07-28 Thread Corrie Zoll
Last week a friend pointed out an egret in Powderhorn Lake, and a family of some sort of ducks I'd never seen before (not in any duck identification web site I could find). TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here,

Re: [Mpls] Urban Wildlife

2003-07-28 Thread Susan Maricle
--- Jim MCGUIRE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have friends who have chickens in their backyard. They live in Longfellow and have had the chickens for 4 or 5 years now. SAM: That's wild! (No pun intended.) I didn't know that poultry were allowed to be kept in Mpls. But they're no noisier than

Re: [Mpls] Urban Wildlife

2003-07-28 Thread Jason C Stone
Hopefully the city will decide to do something about earth pounding mega bass coming from autos before crackin' down on chicken clucking. Jason Stone | Hale SAM: That's wild! (No pun intended.) I didn't know that poultry were allowed to be kept in Mpls. But they're no noisier than some

Re: [Mpls] Urban Wildlife

2003-07-28 Thread ABerget
In a message dated 7/28/03 9:32:32 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hopefully the city will decide to do something about earth pounding mega bass coming from autos before crackin' down on chicken clucking. AB says: Don't count on it. Ann Berget Kingfield

[Mpls] Urban Wildlife

2003-07-28 Thread Steve Brandt
The raccoons have been harvesting fish from neighbor's backyard artificial pool. She's rejected her husband's offer to employ lethal force and my offer of my live trap. She's in the middle of trying an interesting technique--playing the radio for six nights. So far she's raccoon-free for two of

Re: [Mpls] Urban Wildlife

2003-07-28 Thread Dennis Plante
thing that will definitely deter them Dennis Plante Jordan From: "Steve Brandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Mpls] Urban Wildlife Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 13:06:22 -0500 The raccoons have been harvesting fish from neighbor's backyard artificial po

Re: [Mpls] Urban Wildlife

2003-07-28 Thread Sean Ryan
in my opinion is to get a dog. -Sean Ryan Audubon From: Steve Brandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Mpls] Urban Wildlife Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 13:06:22 -0500 The raccoons have been harvesting fish from neighbor's backyard artificial pool. She's rejected her husband's offer

Re: [Mpls] Urban Wildlife

2003-07-28 Thread Tim Bonham
Dennis Responds: I was under the impression that earth-pounding mega-bass (coming from autos) was legal. You mean it's not? I believe the legal limitation is that it must not be heard more than 50 feet from the vehicle. If it can be heard farther away than that, it's not legal. And I'd

Re: [Mpls] Urban Wildlife, 2 legged variety

2003-07-28 Thread Dyna
On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 11:06 AM, Dennis Plante wrote: I was under the impression that earth-pounding mega-bass (coming from autos) was legal.  You mean it's not?  It's certainly the norm and not the exception in my community. Same in Hawthorne... Reckless driving, driving while

Re: [Mpls] Urban Wildlife

2003-07-27 Thread Joncgord
In a message dated 7/26/03 5:23:36 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The most out of place animal I've ever seen in an urban area was what appeared to be a lynx that my wife and I spotted in the car's headlights and then watched as it disappeared into the brush on the

Re: [Mpls] Urban Wildlife

2003-07-27 Thread Michelle Gross
One not-so-rare critter that my daughter and I have been enjoying is the brown rabbit that seems to have moved into the neighborhood for the last year or so. It made it's home in the hedges in our side yard until my landlord removed them (they were in sad shape). It moved up the street for a

Re: [Mpls] Urban Wildlife - Iguana

2003-07-27 Thread ABerget
My family's best urban wildlife adventure took place on Labor Day 1996. We were about to set out on our annual holiday picnic when a neighborhood child came banging on the back door, yelling "Ann, come quick! There's a lizard in the street!" I grabbed my kitty-cat oven mitts for protection and

[Mpls] Urban Wildlife

2003-07-26 Thread Jim MCGUIRE
Greetings, I recall sometime ago that there was a discussion about the various critters we come across right here in our fine city. I live on 24th Ave Se and until today the most out of place thing I'd ever seen was a pair of deer crossing my street. It was a drought year and my guess is

Re: [Mpls] Urban Wildlife

2003-07-26 Thread Chris Johnson
The most out of place animal I've ever seen in an urban area was what appeared to be a lynx that my wife and I spotted in the car's headlights and then watched as it disappeared into the brush on the driver's side of the car one night in St. Paul on Irvine Avenue while descending Cathedral

RE: [Mpls] Urban Wildlife

2003-07-26 Thread ergreenbaum
Sure enough, said roadkill was a skunk. Right on the sight of the road of 24th Ave SE (not far off Como). Jim McGuire Como About 1993 my dog (now deceased) boyfriend (now husband) and I went for a walk near Como by some office buildings. My dog, as usual, went chasing after something in the

[Mpls] Urban Wildlife

2002-06-08 Thread Barbara L. Nelson
Today while walking around Lake of Isles I saw two muskies poke their heads out of the water momentarily. Beautiful! Coincidentally, it was right near the sign on the east side of the lake that says there are muskelunge in these waters. No kidding. Barbara Nelson Burnsville, but still walking