On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 20:23:51 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:

>On 3/27/2021 8:00 PM, Boron Elgar wrote:
>> On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 19:28:30 -0400, jmcquown >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 3/27/2021 6:27 PM, Boron Elgar wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> I did like those frozen strawberries, though.
>>>>
>>> When I was a teenager my mother planted a small strawberry patch. It
>>> was very pretty and the berries were nice. One day we started smelling
>>> the stench of something not pleasant. Turned out a bird had died and
>>> was rotting under the leaves. That sort of ruined the strawberry patch
>>> for us.
>>>
>>> Jill
>>
>> Ick, but that is just nature as you saw a bit of it.
>>
>> I keep mouse traps in the starwberry tubs, more to scare away the
>> chipmunks, rather than catching/harming them. I put traps around some
>> of the cherry tomato plants, too.
>>
>> I have security cameras set up around the outside of the house, not
>> for safety reasons, but for seeing critters. The things one sees
>> after dark....
>>
>I'd love to have some critter cams outside! When I first moved here I
>couldn't keep a bird feeder. Raccoons kept tearing them down. I had a
>really nice terra cotta feeder that hung on chains with S hooks. One
>morning I went out and the feeder bowl was in the grass, the hooks were
>there but the chains were gone. Raccoons had stolen the chains! I keep
>picturing them dressed like little gangsters in vests with their masked
>faces, twirling chains. Film noir.

Yup- see my corn-related post to Janet a few mins ago. I have lost
some wonderful feeders.
>
>It would be fun to find out what's going outside at night.
>
>Jill

Sometimes deer, foxes, or raccoons, and all in one night.