Special Ed wrote:Ken,

Get me some pictures of your wild tukeys. My wife is a city girl and thinks I am full of it when I tell her about the turkeys I see out in the area occasionally.

About 2 years ago we had 6 female turkeys walk thru my back yard. The thing is, I'm in Naperville. South Naperville. I suppose it helps that its unincorporated Naperville. I've also seen coyotes stroll thru. I hear 'em at night all the time. Same with the owls but not as often. Also had a button buck running like mad around the school field across the street a few years ago. Over the weekend we had a female mallard on the front yard that was blinded in a fight (prolly by a cat, I'm guessing). She's now residing at the WIllowbrook Center because I couldnt get myself to wring its neck. I'll shoot pheasant and rabbit but I cant kill a blind duck. Does that make me a softie?

ThunderStick wrote:

Special Ed wrote:Ken,

Get me some pictures of your wild tukeys. My wife is a city girl and thinks I am full of it when I tell her about the turkeys I see out in the area occasionally.

About 2 years ago we had 6 female turkeys walk thru my back yard. The thing is, I'm in Naperville. South Naperville. I suppose it helps that its unincorporated Naperville. I've also seen coyotes stroll thru. I hear 'em at night all the time. Same with the owls but not as often. Also had a button buck running like mad around the school field across the street a few years ago. Over the weekend we had a female mallard on the front yard that was blinded in a fight (prolly by a cat, I'm guessing). She's now residing at the WIllowbrook Center because I couldnt get myself to wring its neck. I'll shoot pheasant and rabbit but I cant kill a blind duck. Does that make me a softie?

Oh yeah, tons of musk rats too. I ran a trap line last summer for 2 months (got a special permit from the DNR for that) and got a mess of those things out of the lake. A few years before that my neighbor dispatched over 40.