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donnamatrix · 02-28-2011, 03:32 PM

Thanks so much for telling us about how you feed the eagles. I love it. A couple years ago, when we had WORSE snow than we have now, and it had a hard, frozen crust on the top, the Audubon Society had commented in local media that the owls and other raptor birds were having trouble finding enough to eat, because the critters they go after were tunneling under the "snowcap" ... so, I was buying inexpensive steak, cutting it up and putting it out on top of the snow. Of course, I don't know if owls got it or a fox or whatever ... but somebody was chomping it down. Audubon said that you could buy mice and "euthanize" them by putting into freezer, then put mice out for the owls ... but I couldn't do that.

02-28-2011, 03:32 PM	#5
donnamatrix Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Moultonboro Posts: 833 Thanks: 24 Thanked 258 Times in 120 Posts	That's great! Thanks so much for telling us about how you feed the eagles. I love it. A couple years ago, when we had WORSE snow than we have now, and it had a hard, frozen crust on the top, the Audubon Society had commented in local media that the owls and other raptor birds were having trouble finding enough to eat, because the critters they go after were tunneling under the "snowcap" ... so, I was buying inexpensive steak, cutting it up and putting it out on top of the snow. Of course, I don't know if owls got it or a fox or whatever ... but somebody was chomping it down. Audubon said that you could buy mice and "euthanize" them by putting into freezer, then put mice out for the owls ... but I couldn't do that.