NWR Field Notes

Tag: Beach

  • More raccoons, less habitat increase risk of attacks

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    Jeff Norris
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    Threats, disease could trigger run-ins BY JIM WAYMER Fuzzy, cute, but tough as nails, a raccoon that feels threatened can rage red in tooth and claw — as a 74-year Lakeland woman found out earlier this month.     The woman tried to shoo a family of five raccoons away from her patio. But mama raccoon…

  • Crab VS Dog

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    Jeff Norris
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    OK so I’m new to Florida, I admit it. Today I had something happen that really got me laughing. While i was out drumming up new leads, I left the dogs in the back yard. It’s fenced in so I was certine they could’nt get into any trouble. (how wrong I was.) When I stoped in for lunch one…