Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Sun, 29 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:26:09 +0100, D wrote:
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They seem to be very set in their ways. No chance for diplomacy?

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Baseball bat.  Conventional wisdom is a porcupine is the only animal an
unarmed man in the wilderness can kill and eat. Hit them in the nose.
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Apropos there is a trail I frequently walk which has a shortcut that I
don't think I've ever used. Yesterday I wanted to get my miles for the
year up and took it for a lap and a half. One of the informational signs
is about porcupine damage pointing out a couple of trees with dead tops.
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Part of the trail runs along the river and I used to see beaver damage,
and I've seen it on other riparian trails but there is nothing recent. I
wonder if Fish & Game has been waging a quiet war on beavers?

Beavers are cute too, but they have no concept of respect for others private property!
I once met an otter in my local little fishing lake. He scared me half to death (it was late and I just saw a hueg black thing crawling out of the lake a few meters from me. Very unexpected. I suspect he was equally scared, not expecting a human to be there at that hour.
In eastern europe I also met an otter once, in daylight. I think he was hungry and was swimming toward a small island with lots of birds (and eggs) for a snack.
But that otter is very naughty. Once at night, he swam and chewed through my keep nets that were full of fish I was planning on smoking. I woke up and found nothing but holes in the net. After that, I purchased a keep net out of metal instead, for the moment, I've won!