Subj : Winter is coming? To : Mike Powell From : Charles Pierson Date : Mon Feb 08 2021 20:23:16 On 08 Feb 2021, Mike Powell said the following... MP> I live in an area that is on the edge of a city. I am within walking MP> distance of a cornfield, a cattle farm, a tobacco field, and some wooded MP> areas. :) We get deer through here all the time. Plenty of squirrels. MP> I have never seen a racoon or a (live) opposum but I know the latter is MP> around anyway. MP> I don't have any deer around, which is probably a good thing. Lots of hunters in the area. MP> While not in my immediate area, there are plenty of cliffs nearby. The MP> vultures seem to like hanging out in those. In more recent years, I have MP> actually seen a bunch just hanging around in some not so tall trees 2-3 MP> miles from here. MP> MP> I am always on the lookout for owls but never seem to see any. Do MP> sometimes see hawks, but never get a close enough look to see what kind. MP> I've got a small wooded area behind my place. It's actually the back end of the acerage a small steel company has that they left undeveloped. I believe that's where the owls I've seen make their home, but I'm not for sure. The hawks live in the park about a mile away, it's got a nice nature trail that's only warning is to watch out for alligators where the path goes iver the bayou. --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32) * Origin: theoasisbbs.ddns.net:1357 .