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Old 01-24-2011, 09:28 PM
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Well I have advertisement from the 40's and 50's showing the sportsman taking aim at hawks etc..and I do remember hunters shooting hawks even in the 60's. And you are of course right..we should take the blame for the loss of habitat for the gamebirds etc in this country..but part of the blame lies right on the lack of reduction of predators. Not just hawks owls and foxes...All predators including possums coons feral cats and running free dogs. Unhappily..without a bit of help the quail didn't fair well on the CReP acres I had. After reducing all of the above..the critters rebounded beautifully. I even had a Horned owl in the mid 60's. Crows hated it..So I shot them to protect the owl. He was really hard to keep..feeding was time consuming. That owl hated everything. Finally turned him loose. He hung around home for the longest time
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