wildlife
By Laney Salisbury on Monday, Jan. 12, 2015 - 12:22 pm
Above: A bear snacks on birdseed after smashing a bird feeder at a home in Andes in 2006. Photo by Peter Possenti (using a telephoto lens.) Used with permission.
The spot Tim Meservey found at the base of a tree early one Saturday morning in September ... Read more
By Catskill Forest Association on Monday, Dec. 8, 2014 - 5:30 pm
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Wednesday Night's ShowOn this coming Wednesday's show we'll be talking about forest food plots. Although conventional food plots - including cover crops - can be... Read more
By Catskill Forest Association on Friday, Nov. 14, 2014 - 11:15 am
For those that hunt the great white-tailed deer of North America or that are involved in managing for any number of the popular game species, food plots are well known. According to Wikipedia, “a food plot is a planted area set aside to act as a food... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Jul. 23, 2014 - 3:38 pm
For the federal wildlife biologists tasked with keeping New York State boar-free, rounding up Zybysek Trunirz's escaped wild Eurasian boars has become something of a regular occurrence.
A few weeks ago, it happened again: A group of boars escaped from... Read more
By Katherine Speller on Thursday, Jun. 5, 2014 - 1:21 pm
Above: A still of the doe mid-crash, from the security camera footage of at Hudson Coffee Traders. Via Times Herald Record's Youtube channel.
Taking a break from the daily grind, a small doe crashed through the glass front door of Hudson Coffee Traders,... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, May. 1, 2014 - 12:09 pm
A raccoon that was killed in a recent fight with a dog in the Delaware County hamlet of Bloomville was found to be infected with rabies, county health officials announced.
The raccoon was sent to the New York State rabies laboratory for testing. County... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 30, 2014 - 4:06 pm
Above: A trailcam in Delaware County catches a nocturnal glimpse of an elusive wild boar. Photo taken in August 2013; courtesy of USDA APHIS.
A statewide ban on the hunting and trapping of feral swine -- also known as wild boars or Eurasian boars -- went... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 14, 2014 - 12:46 pm
Our Catskills Food Guide editor Jennifer Strom photographed this turkey making like a chickadee at a bird feeder in Roxbury today. After the cold, hard winter we've had, wildlife is especially stressed.
It's not just in the Catskills where animals are... Read more
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