A friend of mine with roommates used to rent a house in Wayne. He'd sit at a 2nd floor window and shoot squirrels with his pellet gun.... then he butchered them and made squirrel stew. He said it tasted great but each one only gave a little meat from each rear thigh. I never tried it.
Chickens are basically decedents of Raptors. People always make the mistake that they're not carnivorous. We put ham, turkey and chicken carcasses in the chicken run and they pick it clean in an hour. We had a snake looking for eggs one day, big mistake, chickens pummeled it to death and ate it. Nothing goes to waste in this house.
Not for nothing, but if one is up in a tree stand waiting for an animal to wander by, are you really hunting....or just ambushing ?
This is not that. It’s the part that fox doesn’t want to eat. Some internal parts.
An Ecology professor I had at Rutgers told me that many of the populations were brought in from Ontario Canada and deliberately released in parks in Princeton, Washington DC, Battle Creek, East Lansing, and Kent State among other locations. Mutations have led to them being found elsewhere as previously mentioned in this thread. When I was at RU many years ago I never saw them anywhere else in New Jersey except Princeton and Cranbury.
You nailed it in the 3rd sentence, as the car is the only natural predator left for varmints of all kinds...
There are lots of hawks, snakes and foxes up here
