Early visitor at the breakfast window
Mammals
Who’s tipping it over?
Trespassers still
Who me?
Sandy asked, “Who’s eating all the leaves off my cucumber vine?”
She also asked, “Who keeps digging holes in my fairy garden?”
That’s the Carolina Wren, owner of both the porch and the space under the porch. His call seems to be “Lucille! Lucille!”
Seen last month by the wildview camera in the badminton garden, a young fox maybe?
Groundhog on a stump
Looking behind the rock garden
A fox maybe? At 1:37 in the morning on June 28th:
Three weeks earlier, same spot, also about 1:30 in the morning:
From the wildlife camera, Jan-Apr, 2018
26 images, about 10 seconds apart. Click the image to skip the wait. By the way, we’re not actively trying to fence the critters out — only to keep the dog in. We’ve seen adult deer easily jumping that 5′ fence, but they hardly ever bother, and the squirrels squeeze through those 2″ x 4″ openings. I think the box turtles burrow underneath, but so far this dog hasn’t learned to do that. The vine climbing the fence is the notorious Japanese honeysuckle, branded by the state as a noxious weed. Its flowers are pretty, and they really do smell like honey later in the spring.
Wildlife camera: deer at back fence
With last year’s leaves of the American beech trees still displayed behind her.
Deer at Dad’s kitchen window
Grazing under the bird feeder
Quick, deer
Trying out the new wildlife camera, hoping for a bit better than this, almost 7am on Feb 7th. But three days later about midnight we got these two at the same spot:
One of them got even closer . . .
