Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Pat Meadows <pat@meadows.pair.com>]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:39:38 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

>
>Pat - Thanks for the reassurances about the grey
>foxes; I will leave them alone to do their thing! I'm
>tickled that we have such wildlife diversity in our
>suburban neighborhood. 
>

Yes, I can imagine.  We live in a truly rural area now, and
I adore it (after many, many years of trying to get back to
an area like this).

But there's a lot of wildlife in suburbia too.  I used to
live in Newark, Delaware:  maybe not too far from you.  My
daughter was visiting, we drove by Christiana Hospital for
some reason (can't remember where we were going), and a fox
ran across the road in front of us.  

Foxes in the UK have become urban/suburban specialists,
according to my husband (who is British and saw them
frequently).  So maybe they're moving into this ecological
niche here as well.

Here we have:  black bears, deer, coyotes, bob cats,
possibly lynx, just possibly mountain lions - as well as the
usual crew of smaller animals.  

We've seen a huge male black bear from our house twice, once
only about 30 feet away.  He was hanging around town so he
was captured and taken far away.... I don't know how far
though.  Alaska would be a good place for him!   But I'm
sure he was released somewhere else in Pennsylvania.

Pat
-- 
Gardening in northern Pennsylvania.  

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