tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post604592763388769154..comments2024-03-26T22:16:26.572-04:00Comments on Terrierman's Daily Dose: Roadkill BluesPBurnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05781540805883519064noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-60511635869587602222009-09-21T14:38:03.470-04:002009-09-21T14:38:03.470-04:00I really don't remember seeing many dead birds...I really don't remember seeing many dead birds on the road when I lived in Washington State. Maybe I'm just romanticising things or I have a bad memory. Here in Denmark I see them all the time. Those wood pigeons are absolute idiots. This afternoon one flew down and *landed* right in front of my car on an empty stretch of road while I was doing 80 km/hr. Instant feather cloud. I was the only moving object within sight. Why would it fly down in front of me? Severe depression? Was his wife seeing a younger man? Too much booz? <br /><br />I see quite a few crows and magpies on the side of the road; usually it looks like they were hit while eating something else that was hit earlier. Fair enough, occupational hazard of being a scavanger I guess. But those wood pigeon carcases are strewn all over the road. I can see no good reason for them to have been hanging out on the road at all, let alone in the middle of it. Do they even have brains?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11755724437435217815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-79995621470837493892009-09-20T19:58:38.109-04:002009-09-20T19:58:38.109-04:00This year roadkill issues are going to exacerbated...This year roadkill issues are going to exacerbated by a bad mast year in West Virginia. On a four mile stretch of highway today, I counted 9 flattened squirrels against the asphalt and 3 running back and forth trying to figure out which side of the road to go to.<br /><br />http://www.dailymail.com/News/statenews/200909160138<br /><br />As I said earlier this year, some varieties of apples were not successfully polinated because of the late frost and cool, rainy spring. This problem occurred right across the spectrum of tree species.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-3225550610317292812007-08-10T11:55:00.000-04:002007-08-10T11:55:00.000-04:00If people need a guide to roadkill, the book "Flat...If people need a guide to roadkill, the book "Flattened Fauna" by Roger Knutson can be helpful. I bought a copy for my mom when the book first came out about 20 years ago, just for giggles. I doubt many new species have been added to the roadkill lexicon in the past 20 years, so the book should still be useful.kabbagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02959522818420444846noreply@blogger.com