Help please - figuring out what I'm dealing with...Be-headed duck.

[sourland]

To ilovebuffs list, I would add:

1 or more birds killed-head eaten + chest area (dusk to daybreak predation) Great Horned Owl

 

[chubbydog811]

His head was gone, and eaten down to/into his chest.
He was left inside of his pen. Though there was a small blood trail leading back towards the poop pile (like something was lugged back with the animal). Only one bird dead like this.
Would have had to happen between 830pm and 530am.

We've never had problems with owls around here - never see or hear of them (not that we would be likely to see them). Unless it sat on the barn roof, there is really no where for it to scope out its food (no trees).

Also, I'm in New Hampshire if they would chance what kind of critter it might be?

It's definitely not a fox. We had many foxes last spring, and it was nothing like this. Our neighbor did have a weasel problem though...

Thanks again for the advice!

 

[Hoss1975]

Quote:
Yes a skunk will spray when you shoot it,every time.The best way to dispatch a skunk in a trap is a kill pole loaded with acatone,you have to move slow but usually they don't spray.And it sounds like you have a opossum,it's the only animal that i know of that will burrow into a pile of manure,opossums are nasty critters.

 

[sourland]

New Hampshire adds the possibility of a Fisher. Good luck with your trapping tonight.

 

[chickenaddictntn]

Please let us know what you catch the suspense is building.

 

[chubbydog811]

Still haven't seen my neighbor to get his trap

BUT...I threw a few bars of poison in the critter's entrance hole, and the bars are no longer there...SO hopefully that will do it! We'll see. I will definitely see the neighbor tomorrow, so I can set up the trap for tomorrow night.

 

[chickenaddictntn]

Cool I'm gonna set mine 2night see what I get somethings lurking around at night prints are around one run.