Posted by Buzzman72 on April 10, 2009 at 09:36:23 from (74.129.220.44):
Where I live, I've noticed a lot of changes in the patterns of the wildlife. About 15 years ago, when I moved into my house, there was an abundance of squirrels, and plenty of acorns, walnuts,and hickory nuts to sustain them. Then a few summers ago we had a bad drought, and the nut crop suffered...and so did the squirrel population.
In the past couple of years, the squirrel population has bounced back SOME...but not nearly to what it was before. I recall 20 or so years ago sitting next to a tree when I was deer hunting, and I thought the deer were stampeding toward me from behind...and when I got up to check the source of the sound, it was 7 or 8 squirrels frolicing in the leaves, and sounding like a hundred of 'em. Haven't seen or heard anything like that in a long time.
This year while deer hunting, I noticed that the hawk population is way up, over what it was when I started hunting. When it started to get good shooting daylight in the woods, between 7:30 and 8 am, the squirrels would start moving. But when the hawks appeared, the squirrels on the sides of the trees would disappear...and then the entire woods would go quiet, at least until the howks would move on. I don't recall seeing hawks in the numbers I saw this past season, nor had I seen the squirrels NOT seemingly oblivious to what was going around them [except for me passing through "their" woods].
I don't think I'm getting THAT much more observant in my "old age," as my eyesight and hearing aren't nearly as sharp as they were in the past. But the patterns are definitely changing, at least where I live and hunt in Southern Indiana.
Anyone else notice similar changes in the patterns and habits of wildlife in YOUR area?
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