CrowsThe Mice, that we enjoy watching around the bird feeder, but yes do catch
in the garage for the same reasons,
($300 later after the ignition wire was chewed)when put out in the driveway are
quickly snatched up an eaten by the crows.Nothing goes to waste.
I was suspecting the local Hawks, or occasional Owl might be the dinner guests
but after placing a motion sensing video camera in the area we quickly learned
it was a curious crow coming to visit.
Matthew R JohnsonWendy S PoulsenMinnetonka MN
On Friday, November 20, 2020, 10:45:41 AM CST, Mary M White / Charles R
Neil <[email protected]> wrote:
Ah yes... one of the most beautiful sights in nature is a hovering
rough-leg! Watching kestrels hover is also a thrill, but because the
rough-leg is so much bigger, it is even more amazing to see how graceful
such a big and powerful bird can be. Much less commonly, red-tailed hawks
can occasionally be seen hovering, and seem almost as good at it as the
rough-legs. Though not seen in MN, white-tailed kites are fabulous
hoverers, as I was lucky to observe during travels in Texas and Mexico as a
young man.
I have also needed to snap trap mice in our unattached garage, because if I
don't, they find their way into the duct-work of our cars and make a big
mess, even causing the fans to get clogged and malfunction, which is an
expensive fix. When I sometimes see the brains and other body parts missing
from those trapped mice, I've also thought that shrews were the culprits.
But since I seldom notice other evidence of shrews, I checked Hazard's
Mammals of MN book, and see that our woodland deer mice will commonly eat
carrion. So, I suspect there is some cannibalization going on in our garage!
Chuck Neil, Embarrass, MN
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 1:33 AM Steve Weston <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Monday I saw a Rough-legged Hawk hovering by Mother Lake on the NW
> corner of the lake (Hwy 62 & Hwy 77). It was instantaneously recognizable
> as it is the only large raptor that regularly hovers as it hunts. The other
> raptor that hovers is the Kestrel, which is quite small.
>
> One day visitors in my yard in the last week include a YB Sapsucker, one or
> two Tufted Titmice and a flock of European Starlings (thankfully a rare
> visitor).
>
> This has been quite a bountiful week on my Peromyscus trap line. Whether I
> am catching North American Deermice or White-footed Mice in my garage I am
> not certain. I try to keep the population down in the garage so I am not
> bothered by them scampering in the attic. I have no idea if it works. The
> most successful trap in one corner of the garage usually contains only
> partial remains of the trapped mice. The trapped mice are being eaten in
> all probability by shrews. I have caught two or three species including
> Short-tailed, cinereus (masked), and I believe pygmy.
> Steve Weston
> On Quigley Lake in Eagan, MN
> [email protected]
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