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	<title>Nature's Corner &#187; Problem Wildlife</title>
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	<description>Wildlife in Our Backyards</description>
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		<title>Gophers are Stubborn</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brent Johner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Richardson's Ground Squirrels]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Late in August, I discovered a loose pile of fresh dirt beside a hole that was about five inches deep and just big enough around to accommodate a tennis ball. It was close to the foundation of my house and less than 10 feet from a ground-level pond. My first thought: gophers!


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		<title>Our Love-Hate Relationship with Pigeons</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brent Johner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mourning Dove]]></category>
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Rock Pigeons, known to most people simply as pigeons, have a long history with humans. They were, in fact, the first bird to be domesticated some 6500 years ago. Since then pigeons have served us as pets, as war heroes and even, occasionally, as food.
Like magpies and other species whose life cycles are closely tied [...]


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		<title>Five Things You Probably Didn&#8217;t Know About Magpies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brent Johner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bird Behaviour]]></category>
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1. Magpies are more than black and white.
Black-billed Magpies are medium-sized perching birds with extremely long tails. Black feathers cover their heads, breasts and backs. They have white feathers at the base of their wings, on their bellies and on their upper and lower outer-wings. The rest of their wings and their long tails are [...]


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		<title>Canada&#8217;s Goose</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brent Johner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bird Behaviour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parks & Natural Areas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Problem Wildlife]]></category>

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In spite of the fact that some regions of Canada have lost as much as 70 per cent of their original wetlands in the past 100 years, the Canada Goose continues to thrive in North America.







It&#8217;s hard to believe, now, that the species was once in serious decline. Formerly victims of the deadly duo of [...]


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		<title>Garbage for One is Food for Another</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 13:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brent Johner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attracting Birds & Wildlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mammals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[American Crow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Skunk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black-billed Magpie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Raven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coyote]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deer Mouse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House Mouse]]></category>

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By the time we reach the month of August, nature&#8217;s mating cycle is largely complete. Migrating birds, bats and insects have journeyed to their mating grounds. Eggs have hatched. Nestlings have fledged. Young mammals have left the den.
Breeding colours, so vivid just weeks ago, have given way to the non-breeding plumages. Mammals are in the [...]


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		<title>Of Mice and Feeders</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brent Johner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attracting Birds & Wildlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mammals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Problem Wildlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deer Mouse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House Mouse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meadow Vole]]></category>

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The North American bird feeding industry, now a billion dollar enterprise, loves to talk about the many different species of birds you will see once you set up a variety of feeders offering a variety of foods.
The industry also likes to talk about squirrels both as villains raiding your feeders and as reasons to buy [...]


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		<title>Habitat for Non-Humanity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brent Johner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cape May Warbler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clay-colored Sparrow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ruby-Crowned Kinglet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ruby-throated Hummingbird]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rufous Hummingbird]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Say's Phoebe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Townsend's Solitaires]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western Wood-Pewee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White-Crowned Sparrow]]></category>

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Eight years ago, I started a major garden renovation that ended only last year. Step one of my project saw me removing overgrown trees and shrubs that were planted too close to the house by a previous owner.







A by-product of this stage of the renovations was a large brush pile in the southwest corner of [...]


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		<title>Mouse-Proof Your House</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brent Johner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Problem Wildlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deer Mouse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House Mouse]]></category>

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Winter is fast approaching and the time has come to mouse-proof our homes, garages and garden sheds. Or at least, that is what we tell each other, pretending that mouse-proofing is a task that can easily be accomplished.







In fact, mouse-proofing is nearly impossible. Only a steel box with welded seems is truly mouse-proof and I [...]


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		<title>Magpies Make Noise &#8212; Sorry</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brent Johner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attracting Birds & Wildlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birds]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Black-billed Magpie]]></category>

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Magpies make some noise all year round. However, it is July when magpie noise reaches its cacophonous crescendo and human beings across the city begin complaining loudly to anyone who will listen.







Alberta Fish and Wildlife, the Weaselhead Society and even the city&#8217;s 3-1-1 system all get calls from sleep-deprived people seeking relief from noisy magpies. [...]


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		<title>Do No Evil</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brent Johner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attracting Birds & Wildlife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biological Pollution]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Invasive Species]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sparrows]]></category>

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House Sparrows &#8212; those little brown birds you see and hear everywhere in our city &#8212; are not native to this area. In fact they are not even native to North America.







In the second half of the nineteenth century, some misguided do-gooders began releasing House Sparrows by the thousands in cities and rural environs in [...]


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