After protests from lots of readers I must confess I didn’t really shoot the mad cardinal that is flogging my pickup mirror. But covering the mirrors makes little difference. He just sees himself in the window reflection. If you have a similar problem, and many seem to, with various types of birds, the best answer is to put a big mirror out where he operates. Hang it from a tree or pole and let him just give it heck!
Outdoors
MDC reduces CWD Management Zone starting in July
• Crawford County still one of 29 counties will management restrictions will remain in place
The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) announces it has reduced the number of counties in its management zone for chronic wasting disease (CWD) from 48 to 29 starting in July. Changes to the CWD Management Zone will impact restrictions on feeding deer, antler-point restrictions, antlerless permits for some counties, and mandatory CWD sampling.
MSHP joins Operation Dry Water
Colonel Eric T. Olson, superintendent of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, announces the Patrol's participation in Operation Dry Water. Operation Dry Water is in its 11th year and Missouri has participated since the program’s inception.
Onondaga Cave State Park offers hosts hummingbird banding event July 6
Join researcher Lanny Chambers at Onondaga State Park as he captures, bands and studies ruby-throated hummingbirds during at a banding event from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, July 6 at the park’s visitor center. Reservations are not required.
Using hog manure for an improving environment
Hog manure and an improving environment are seldom, if ever, used in the same sentence. I was honored last week to be a media guest of Roeslein Alternative Energy, LLC at their north Missouri hog farm where they are successfully producing renewable natural gas from hog mature.