Subject: Re: GBH feeding bahavior
Date: Nov 8 12:06:19 1998
From: Tom Foote - footet at elwha.evergreen.edu




On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Charles Swift wrote:

> Tweeters:
>
> Back east, where I grew up, when the Chesapeake Bay marshes freeze (which
> only happens during bad winters), the GBHs prey on mouse/vole species,
> nutria, and muskrat.

I grew up on the Atlantic seaboard in Ipswich, MA and there
we called the GBH a SH**poke...due, I think, for it's
penchant to poke around in the muck 'n stuff and eat anything
it could subdue..

Tom