Bobcat in our backyard this morning
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I apologize for the late reply, but this is a problem that we have just started having at a level that it concerns us.
For voles, what size of trap do you use, and what do you put in the trap to attract voles? Would a combination of peanut butter and black oil sunflower seeds work (with the peanut butter used to glue the seeds to the trap)?
While visiting D in Los Angeles a deer mouse moved in our house. We used one of those live traps with peanut butter and caught it the first night. It’s now living the life in a nice secluded area one mile away.
That is one big healthy looking bobcat!
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Very cool! Bobcats are always welcome in my yard. 
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We bought the small size Have-a-Heart trap (advertisement said it worked well for moles, voles, mice, etc.). I think my husband just used peanut butter as bait. Surprisingly, we didn’t seem to have any moles or voles in the herb beds this year.
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Thanks!
I will put this out tomorrow. Voles are one part of nature that we do not tolerate well.
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Perhaps this is not all that unusual. There were eight of these in my neighbor’s front yard just now (and 12 in my yard a couple of days ago), but I got a better picture zooming in a bit:
We neither encourage nor discourage Turkeys. They just come and go as they please.
Edit to add: Just after sunset just now, with there still a bit of twilight, I just saw turkeys a lot like these (maybe the same ones) fly up into trees for the night. I am guessing that this is safer for them compared to spending the night on the ground. It is a bit of a surprise to see such a large bird fly when we have mostly seen then walking around until now.
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We have a lot of turkeys here - we do live on the river so there is a lot of shoreline where they can hide. There is a spot about a mile from our house where traffic is often stopped because there are several in the road and they refuse to move! Often 12 or more at a time.
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