[LMB] (chat) mink!

[Marilyn Traber]

anmar mirza wrote:
> One of my first wildlife encounters out here at the ranch lo these
> many years ago was a mink.  It was unaware of my presence until it
> was about twenty feet away.  I've also seen a weasel and
> last summer saw a bobcat!
>
> I love living in the country.
>
>
>   
We have hawks, buzzards and eagles in the woods around us, wild turkeys, 
pheasants and deer wander into our field, and bunnies, racoons and 
opossums abound. We had the most polite opossum living in our barn for 
quite awhile keeping the random mouse population down. We also had a 
female skunk who lived for many years [and litters of skunklettes] in 
the forsythia bush by the bedroom. She was  rather nice - never sprayed 
and the babies were cute tumbling around under the bush on nice days.

I will admit we once had a woodpecker, but there was an incident of 
insanity caused by it incessantly pounding on the side of the house all 
day when I was working night shift. After 2 weeks of sleep deprivation 
it committed accidental suicide by .22 cal popgun. I shot it so I could 
just SLEEP.