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The barred owl (right) is the most talkative of our owl species, often asking the question: Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you all?
Courting season for two big owl species is a hoot
It’s getting to be the hooting season. Not that it doesn’t go on all year, but this is the time when two of our bird species really earn the label of hoot owls. Both great horned owls and barred...
Jan 14, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Aggressive coyotes
The dog went into a barking fit in the front yard — not just routine vigilant woofing, but a tone that indicates hair standing on end and eminent threat. The McCracken County woman stepped onto ...
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Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources Dodie Sikes, of Louisville, packs a stringer of chilly-season sauger that came from the Ohio River, these from the tailwaters of McAlpin Lock and Dam.
Catch a break in conditions and maybe catch some fish
It seems an unlikely time to talk fishing, but fisheries managers remind us of dead-of-winter potential when the time is right. The right timing may depend on catching a day when the temperature...
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Briefs
Last of the hunting year’s state firearm deer hunting The free youth deer hunting weekend Dec. 31-Jan. 1 added but a modest number to the 2011-12 deer harvest. Still, the total continues to cree...
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Solunar Tables
7:08 4:54 7:08 4:55 7:08 4:56 7:08 4:57 7:08 4:58 7:08 4:59 7:07 5:00   Minor 3:40 Major 9:50 Minor 4:00 Major 10:15 Minor 4:30 Major 10:35...
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A natural evergreen Christmas tree, stripped of decorations, can be weighted and sunk where it will become habitat and a fish attractor in a pond or lake.
Post-season Christmas trees can attract catchable fish, shelter wildlife
Natural evergreens that have been honored Christmas trees of late in many households now are trash. Lovely, harvested-for-decor firs, spruces pines and such by the mere progression of the season ha...
Dec 31, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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The raccoon is one of those varmints that uses torpor to winter advantage -- sleeping in when the weather is harsh but making his rounds to forage for food when conditions are more friendly.
The long winter’s nap Many critters rely on varying degrees of slumber to endure the cold season
The more spates of increasingly harsh weather we get, the more critters sleep it off. What with heat pumps and thermostats, we tend to forget how much of a challenge it is just to survive winter...
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Solunar Tables
7:06 4:43 7:06 4:44 7:07 4:44 7:07 4:45 7:07 4:46 7:07 4:47 7:08 4:47   Minor 4:50 Major 11:05 Minor 5:10 Major 11:40 Minor 5:55 Major -- ...
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Hunting and fishing licenses make great last-moment gifts
On this, Christmas Eve, it may come as an act of desperation, but you can still acquire fitting, appropriate and appreciated holiday gifts right now for the sporting-inclined recipient. Through ...
Dec 24, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Solunar Tables
7:06 4:43 7:06 4:44 7:07 4:44 7:07 4:45 7:07 4:46 7:07 4:47 7:08 4:47   4:50 11:05 5:10 11:40 5:55 -- 6:20 12:05 6:45 12:35 ...
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