On 3/27/2021 10:04 PM, Boron Elgar wrote:
> 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.
>>
Yep, I just read that! I've seen as many as 7 raccoons out back at one
time, but not in recent years.

>> It would be fun to find out what's going outside at night.
>>
>> Jill
>
> Sometimes deer, foxes, or raccoons, and all in one night.
>
I think there might be foxes in the area but I'm not sure. I know there
are minks (which surprised me!) but they tend to be closer to the water.

Jill