[birdky] FW: question about acadian flycatchers: note about bears, pumas
- From: "Michael Hamm" <hamm@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 10:48:45 -0400
This is an interesting reply to my earlier post about mtn lions and
black bears. I hadn't thought about the possibility that the black bears
were wanderers in search of mates. Makes sense.
Thanks, Jason.
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From: Weese, Jason (PARKS) [mailto:Jason.Weese@xxxxxx]=20
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 10:32 AM
To: Michael Hamm
Subject: [birdky] question about acadian flycatchers: note about bears,
pumas
Most biologists are pretty skeptical about big cats in Kentucky. I know
I hear about mountain lions a lot in Eastern Kentucky, but none ever
seems to get hit by a car or leave any tracks, or kill any prey for that
matter. If any big cat is near Danville it would certainly leave
evidence, it's easy to look at a carcass of a deer or livestock and tell
if a cat killed it. Having said that, a lot of people have illegal pets
that sometimes escape. Just last year a snow leopard was caught near
Shepardsville. A few escaped individuals does not a wild, reproducing
population make.
As for bears, the researchers at UK and the Fish and Wildlife Department
will say that there are no resident bears outside of the Pine Mountain
area. Young males will wander hundreds of miles in the summer looking
for mates, but they won't find any and they will return home after a
while. I'm inclined to agree. One was up near Cincinnati last year
about this time.
Zeb Weese
Park Naturalist
Natural Bridge State Park
2135 Natural Bridge Rd.
Slade, KY 40376
ph: 1-606-663-2214, ext 2104 fax: 1-606-663-5037
e-mail: jason.weese@xxxxxx
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Subject: [birdky] question about acadian flycatchers: note about bears,
pumas
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 11:49:32 -0400
From: "Michael Hamm" <hamm@xxxxxxxxxx>
I have acadian flycatchers breeding at all four Cornell census sites in
my wooded knobland property in rural Boyle County . No surprise there.
But I believe I also have them in my yard in a subdivision in Danville.
Their call and song are very distinctive, and I've been hearing it in
the morning as I lie in bed. I have mature Oaks, spruce and other trees
in the yard. Is it likely that acadian flycatchers will come into town
and nest? I've not seen the birds but they sing every morning, and the
songs and calls are hard to miss.
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Michael Hamm
Danville
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PS: Wildlife notes. I learned that there black bears now in Boyle County
in the knobs, probably on my property and certainly on adjacent
property. Also, those who live out there swear that the big cat that I
hear (which I've assumed is a bobcat) is actually a cougar (puma). It is
said to have a tail, and a number of people have allegedly seen it. I
mention this because mtn lions (cougar/puma) are supposedly extinct in
KY and everywhere in the east except for Florida. So this remains a
mystery.
Zeb Weese
Park Naturalist
Natural Bridge State Park
2135 Natural Bridge Rd.
Slade, KY 40376
ph: 1-606-663-2214, ext 2104 fax: 1-606-663-5037
e-mail: jason.weese@xxxxxx
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