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froggyvet
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Posted: Fri Oct 31st, 2008 03:21 pm |
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hi all. got a question for the more expierienced researchers...i've learned alot already just from the posts, and has verified in few and nullified many of my "armchair" ideas from reading many reports. this information will help me in many ways and I thank you all in advance.
My question is about food rescorces in winter. I read a post by DB (bear) about BF eating more meat and less vegitation for reasons of fattening up for winter. Other than deer and cyotes, I would immaguine that fish are on the diet as well. but what kind? do they prefer one kind to another? and are there any vegetation that they do still eat in winter so along with water rescorces I can try to find a more narrow area to research.
frog
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Catamount
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Posted: Fri Oct 31st, 2008 10:36 pm |
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Froggy, I've found quite a few neat piles of carp, gar, and shad bones and scales along ridgetops adjacent to larger bodies of water. I've sometimes found bass and bluegill bones and scales, and catfish bones, but not nearly as often as the others mentioned. They go after larger fish that frequent shallower waters.
They eat more meat as the weather gets colder not just to fatten up, but because vegetation (berries, nuts, fruits, green plants, etc) are becoming more scarce. They like to hit old gardens where there might be some volunteer or leftover veggies still laying around, orchards and other fruit trees, persimmon trees, cattle and horse feeding areas (they love corn and sweetfeed), and milo, corn, and soghrum fields that are still standing. I don't know for sure if they eat pecans and/or acorns, but it stands to reason that they do.
Through the winter, they might eat honeysuckle (deer love it, and it would make a good ambush place for them). Wouldn't surprise me if they ate sumac berries also.
Hope that answers a couple of your questions.
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froggyvet
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Posted: Fri Oct 31st, 2008 11:22 pm |
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yes it does!! thank you so much! now i gotta see if honeysuckle is where i'm gonna research. thank you again!
frog
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kurdokis
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Posted: Sun Nov 2nd, 2008 12:09 am |
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| Froggy. Hi I haven't chatted with you yet but hope to. In my neck of the woods, deer, turkey, rabbit, quail, possum and other varmits are plentiful. Not to mention the trash cans around towns and in the state parks here. There are lots of feed lots here where some sightings have taken place. So winter food wouldn't be such a problem if they know where to migrate to.
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cryptoseeker
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Posted: Sun Nov 2nd, 2008 04:14 pm |
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Here in Fl , its the same stuff they eat during the warmer months .
Catamount has brought up something that I have come acrossed twice and I am curious about .
I have found where there has been anywhere between six to eight Gar and or mud fish that has had its skin peeled all the way back to its head and its flesh ate .
What lives in the woods and can peel the skin of a fish like that ?
.......... Carolann 
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Catamount
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Posted: Sun Nov 2nd, 2008 04:37 pm |
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Carolann, Not but one thing I know of.......
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cryptoseeker
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Posted: Mon Nov 3rd, 2008 12:41 am |
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Same thing I was thinking ............
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sasquatchfound
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Posted: Tue Nov 4th, 2008 04:15 am |
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froggy, In WI. they would have unlimited food sourses, form weasels, minks, pine martens, rabbits, musk rats, beaver, turkey, whitetail, some elk near clam lake, moose (although I don't think they would attempt trying to bring down 1000+ lb. adult, but, maybe a calf) acorns, and maybe cranberries. So, they would be well fed during the winter months.
Thanks, Shane
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