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12/04/12, 11:22 AM
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I hired a new exterminator
For the last year and half our town has been seeing a very large increase in the rat and mouse populations despite borough wide efforts to control their food and habitat sources. The street I live on is in the oldest business section and we have about 5 restaurants within walking distance, so we've seen a few of them here on the property. In fact, they (along with a few rabbits) ate more out of my garden this year than I did. My dog and Dad's dog weren't getting the job done of eradicating them. So I had to hire outside help. He/she arrived at lunch time and got to work immediately....
Got one rat and a small squirrel. I'm keeping the dog inside. It looked at me taking the picture and immediately licked it's chops, I mean beak. 
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12/04/12, 11:24 AM
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Wow -- wish I had more help like that around the place! Beautiful pic, TI. Glad you shared it. 
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12/04/12, 11:29 AM
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Tomorrow I'll have to upload the ones Dad took. Much better camera and angles. We've got a lot of hawks here in town and even got a few bald eagles nesting within 1/2 mile. The river here has been providing a beautiful array of wildlife lately.
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12/04/12, 11:40 AM
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Beautiful.
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12/04/12, 12:09 PM
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ex-terminator, huh? I suppose he'll be bock??
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12/04/12, 03:03 PM
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I thought you hired Glazed, but she doesn't look the same glazed I know, in the picture?
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12/04/12, 03:05 PM
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That's so weird I was thinking I wanted to hire a exterminator from nj but not for mice or rats!
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12/04/12, 04:48 PM
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I've got a friend in the "sanitation" business Mav. 
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12/04/12, 05:23 PM
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So is that a red tail hawk?
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12/04/12, 07:23 PM
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I did the buy it now on zongs gun so I'm going to give her that for Xmas see if that works first.
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12/04/12, 08:27 PM
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Is this one of those "Will work for food" situations?
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12/04/12, 08:46 PM
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Quote:
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So is that a red tail hawk?
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Yes...that would be one.
Great photo TI.
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12/04/12, 09:33 PM
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Yup it's a red tail. I've been having a lot of big bird visits over the last few years. And smack dab in the middle of suburbia too.
Here's one from last year--hanging around on my neighbor's sat dish. If I get up enough gumption Thursday morning, maybe I'll take a run over to the reservoir and look for one of the eagles. I've seen them flying above and making a lot of chatter too.
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12/05/12, 12:38 AM
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I nearly hit a red tail with my car a couple of weeks ago while driving my parents to visit the Air and Space Museum in McMinneville. Silly thing swooped right in front of the car. They are generally so much more graceful, but the heavy rain must have caused him to miscalculate a little.
I always worry one will swoop down and grab up my little dog while he's frolicking in the pasture:
In truth, he's probably safe from a red tail. But not an eagle. No shortage of those around here, either.
Hope you get some great shots of them, TI! And please forgive the gratuitous cute pet photograph in your thread (well, I think he's cute, anyway)...
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12/05/12, 07:46 AM
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You know I LOVE pet photos--the more gratuitous the better.LOL
I'd be worried too. Dad's dog Fritz was outside one day when the hawk landed in the tree next to him, looked down at him sizing him up and guess decided he was too much for one meal. Fritz is a German Shorthaired Pointer. He's 55 pounds.
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12/05/12, 10:04 AM
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Here's the best shot of the bird with lunch resting on the branch. Taken out the dining room window.
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12/05/12, 10:17 AM
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You know I LOVE pet photos--the more gratuitous the better.LOL
I'd be worried too. Dad's dog Fritz was outside one day when the hawk landed in the tree next to him, looked down at him sizing him up and guess decided he was too much for one meal. Fritz is a German Shorthaired Pointer. He's 55 pounds.
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Thanks for being sweet about my gratuitous pet photo!
GREAT shot of the bird! Isn't it fine, sharing space with such magnificent creatures? Leaves me in a constant state of awe.
As for Lewis getting snatched... it happens here often enough that I keep a close eye on the sky when he's out running in open space. Weighs about 10 pounds, so definitely in the prey zone.
I used to keep a few Pekin ducks around, those big white suckers. They wouldn't go down to the pond -- wisely -- after a pair of eagles took up residence in the trees at the edge, just waiting for a duck lunch. Eventually, the eagles got them all.
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12/05/12, 10:26 AM
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I had a hawk that hung out here. I would come home and find a pile of chicken feathers where it dropped out of the sky. It has since moved on (because now I have only 4 chickens) I worry about my little dogs also, 6 lbs would make a nice snack for the coyotes or a hawk.
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