On Oct 19, 6:00*am, Jim Elbrecht > wrote:
> Janet > wrote:
> >In article >,
> says...
>
> >> On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:39:33 -0400, Tara >
> >> wrote:
>
> >> >http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandsty...i-eat-roadkill
>
> >> >It beats wasting it!
>
> >> Critters must taste different on that side of the pond.
>
> > *Pheasant and venison are luxury foods here. Both delicious and expensive
> >if you have to pay for them.
>
> Same here. * *I've never bought either though-- and I haven't seen a
> pheasant in years, come to think of it.
>
> >Pheasants and deer frequently get killed by a
> >head-hit on narrow rural roads here, but the corpses don't stay on the
> >verge long before someone *takes them home.
>
> Birds get swept to the side-- Deer get picked up mostly by road crews.
> If they are fresh and undamaged enough, they go to county facilities
> where I live. * * *
>
>
>
> > We always stop to check a dead pheasant on the roadside and if it's fresh
> >and not squashed we eat it :-)
>
> Is that often? * *[that they are edible?] * * When I think of the
> damage a couple birdshot pellets do to meat, it just seems like most
> would have badly bruised meat that wouldn't interest me at all.
>
> On a deer there is still a lot of good meat-- but small critters don't
> have that much to start with. *

That reminded me of a little poem:

It's not the kind of bird
That I'd ever go a-hunting
'Cause there's not much meat
On an indigo bunting

http://nuthatch09.deviantart.com/art...ting-121896008
>
> Jim

--Bryan