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Wayne — Last spring a lady told me a  robin was attacking and making a mess out  of the windows in her house and wondered  what she could do to make the bird stop.  I explained that the bird probably saw its  own  reflection  in  the  window,  so  if  she  hung pieces of paper on the windows the  bird would most likely stop. Unfortunately,  the next morning at breakfast, my wife told  me I gave her lousy advice, as we watched  the robin attack our kitchen window. On  her way out the door to work she handed  me a roll of paper towels and the Windex  and suggested I think of a plan B. — WCO James mCCarthy, Waymart Cambria — Last  summer  I  responded  to  a  call  about  a  fawn  in  a  pharmacy  in  Westmont. When I got there the fawn was  in a back room of the building. With help  from the West Hills Police Department we  were able to tranquilize it and turn it loose  in the woods. The fawn must have gotten  separated from its mother and thought the  pharmacy  was  a  good  place  to  find  some  formula to replace its mother’s milk. — WCO seth t. mesOras, ebensburg m erCer  — One  day  in  July  about  a  dozen PGC workers and about as many volunteers banded nearly 600 Canada geese.  Although the molting birds are flightless  from  late  June  into  July,  these  geese  had  another line of defense — falling feathers.  It became apparent as the birds were losing  feathers we appeared to be growing them.  Looking at out feathered crew, one could  only see grins between all of the goose fluff.  The  day  gave  new  meaning  to  the  term  “down” wind. — Deputy marshall b. nyCh, neW WIlmIngtOn
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That’ll Teach Me

Could Be

Wild Goose Chase

P erry  — Being  that  Mifflin  County  WCO  Jeff  Mock  was  off  duty  recently,  I  went to a residence near Lewistown where  a  911  call  had  been  placed  after  a  bear  crawled through a window and entered a  house by pushing the screen aside. The lady  who lives there had made cookies earlier  in the day and the young bear apparently  didn’t realize that “breaking and entering”  for cookies was a violation. Fortunately, it  exited the home the way it came in with  no  further  damage.  The  homeowner  was  quite shaken up, though. — WCO steve hOWer, ICkesburg LyComing —I recently decided I wanted  to keep bees as a hobby, so I obtained all  the necessary equipment and read all that  I could before my bees showed up. I put up  an electric fence to keep the bears from getting into my hives, but within two weeks of  getting my bees, a bear tried to get into the  bee yard but was thwarted by the fence. I  had to replace an insulator and fix the wire,  and afterwards thought of something: Who  do I call for bear damage? — WCO JOnathan m. Wyant, COgan statIOn
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Sweet Tooth

Tough Question
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