[obol] Secondary Roadkills

[Carter, Jack]

Hi Barbara - 

This certainly isn't for everyone, but for the last couple of years, if
it's safe place to stop (not on I-5!), I stop and toss road-killed
critters far off the street or road so as to keep animals that feed off
of roadkill from getting hit themselves.  I keep a few plastic shopping
bags to use as "gloves" that I can dispose later.   Maybe this doesn't
do a whole lot to help the problem of secondary roadkilling, but it only
takes a few seconds.  Be safe about it though.  No one wants to be
roadkill!

Jack
Lake Oswego


Message: 12
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:11:53 -0700
From: Barbara Millikan <millikan at viclink.com>
Subject: [obol] TV roadkill
To: obol at lists.oregonstate.edu
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Monday 10 a.m. as I was passing the sewer lagoons on Hwy 18 S of
Sheridan I 
saw a dead TURKEY VULTURE by the side of the road. It had been hit, 
apparently while feeding on roadkill. Curiously, my first thought on
seeing 
the carcass was that it was a turkey, not a TV, but my U turn showed me
the 
hooked beak and heavy black feet. I had never thought before that they 
looked much like turkeys, but then when I see them they are usually 
circling overhead, something that a turkey would never do. It was 
fascinating to see one up close. When I returned later in the day, the
body 
was gone. Food for other TVs? or did someone collect it?
Yrs,
Barbara





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