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Box turtle is slow, but it’s on a serious mission
If you think ’possums have a hard time crossing roads, consider the poor box turtle. The eastern box turtle, our only terrestrial turtle, isn’t a sprinter. It gallops at about the same pace that...
May 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Today is opener for Kentucky’s five-week spring squirrel season
Hunters so inclined can be back in the woods in pursuit of game today with the opening of Kentucky’s expanded spring squirrel hunting season. Nowadays open for five continuous weeks, dates for t...
May 18, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Turkey season on last legs; spring squirrel hunting next
Kentucky’s annual spring wild turkey season is winding down – the big birds are well past the peak activity related to their breeding phase and hunting comes to an end with the close of shooting ho...
May 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Big lakes sunfish more than kid stuff
The bluegill is kind of a starter model among fish. For most people, the first fish they ever caught were bluegill, the common fodder sunfish of our region. Kids conventionally are initiated int...
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Killer kitties: Worse than we thought
The cat’s out of the bag. Recent studies suggest that domestic felines are just wearing out our songbirds. I realize that repeating these claims is akin to besmirching someone’s religion, in thi...
Apr 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Paducahan Susan Runyon took her first-ever gobbler midway through the ongoing Kentucky spring turkey season.
Hunters scoring but turkeys coming harder as season advances
Some area turkey hunters have been finding birds especially uncooperative — but then again, many experience that every season. Today marks the start of the third weekend of Kentucky’s 23-day spr...
Apr 27, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Gobbler harvest mounts as spring turkey hunt continues
Kentucky’s spring wild turkey hunting season today rolls into its second week, and the annual gobbler quest, if not on a record pace, appears to be among the most productive to date. Saturday an...
Apr 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Nest-egging
No, crappie certainly don’t run. They’re fish. They don’t have legs. Seasoned fishermen around Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley sort of roll their eyes when visitors and the uninitiated ask abo...
Apr 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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National Wild Turkey Federation photo The camouflage a turkey hunter wears when trying to call in a gobbler disguises his human form to other hunters, creating need for extra caution all around.
Turkey time:
Today is day one of Kentucky’s spring turkey season, a magical time for those who long to goad gobblers. The April 13-May 5 season is the breeding period hunt in which hunters can play the game,...
Apr 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Charges against 2 start with illegal turkey hunting
EDDYVILLE — With Kentucky’s spring wild turkey season beginning just today, two Lyon County men face a raft of charges after having been arrested Monday, allegedly for hunting turkeys out of season...
Apr 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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