Critter Season

[ddyke]

The time has come to start killing racoons, possums, and groundhogs. Our total at the end of the last two seasons was 91.

I picked cilantro yesterday and will pick lettuce and spinach on Sunday.
I have beans, lettuce, beats, spinach, peas, and cilantro up from seed.

[ccobra]

I you would like, I could round up some ground squirrels and send out to you. I am getting tired of hitting there 'condo' holes when I'm mowing. What is funny one year my son and I decided to have some competition at the ground squirrels expense, he go fifteen, I got fifteen and my do got 17. And there is still plenty to go around.

[TuscoTodd]

No ground squirrels left here - the stray cat that moved into the barn has been cleaning house since last year!
She even has been killing Moles and Vols! (she doesn't eat those though - just leaves them on the porch)
It rocks! :D

[waaytoomuchintothis]

Our cats have figured out where the vole holes are, and they sit stock still for hours, then one swack from those claws and the vole has no chance. We have had 5 on the porch right by the door this year already.

[RazorJon]

my dog tries to kill anything that gets in the yard, shes hard on the moles but the yard looks like WWI trench warfare when shes done

[strangebrew]

[HomeRacingWorld]

"my dog tries to kill anything that gets in the yard"

Not guys with donuts. Smart dog.

[waaytoomuchintothis]

I swear that coon is saying he's sorry...

How much was that night camera?

[strangebrew]

I can't remember, it was a couple of years ago & my old memory fails me quite often...I got it at a local farm store.
I wanna' say it was on the plus or minus side a bit of $100.
That look is why I relocate....I suppose the critters are just doing what nature designed them for.

[RazorJon]

yeah Harry has a way with dogs, donuts and a few dropped hot dogs :lol:

That coon said pigeons taste like chicken :animals-chickencatch:

[waaytoomuchintothis]

We have falcons. They were brought to falcon nests on top of buildings in downtown Richmond to handle the rat problem that began with the yuppie development of the old riverside warehouses. It worked great, and they now continue to live up there, hunting way out here in the country, many miles from the city. When they are around, the crows gather in trees and complain at the top of their lungs. Pretty much everything else runs for cover. I have really enjoyed studying the amazing birds around here. After Hurricane Isabel, we had an osprey in the back yard trees, and there were swans down the street that had to captured and returned to Chesapeake Bay.

By the way, there's a good reason pigeons wouldn't last around merlins. The other name for them is Pigeon Hawk!

We are not going to have a garden this year, so of course, there's not a ground hog to be found. Figures, doesn't it?

[dreinecke]

We use these to control the voles - this was last nights visitor:

[waaytoomuchintothis]

Our voles are too close to the house for the predators to get them, but the cats have deposited 8 so far, counting today. No telling how many they killed and didn't bring up here to torture. Voles live in abandoned mole tunnels. Moles eat worms and grubs, voles eat tender young roots.

[MrAdept]

Awesome photo!

Mark

[ddyke]

#92 was just caught. My neighbors thank me as we are experiencing a plague of coon.