Back yard critters

[Avenger]

or which one is pole vaulting over the cages......................

I know everyone is hanging on this, so let me get this out right niw.

I'm reviewing the video (BTW, if you want to make watching congressional hearings spellbinding, try reviewing surveillance video) so far I've found one visit from Hopkins at 2:00 am-ish where he was aimed at the fortifications:

Then early in the am he was chased from under Mrs. Avenger's car by passing vehicles in the street, but he just bolted past the metal greenhouse.

There was a tree rat on the chain link fence, but probably just transiting. More analysis is needed. Likely a lot of caffeine as well.

Because surveillance video.

Updates as events warrant.

 

[Roccus7]

I know everyone is hanging on this, so let me get this out right niw.

I'm reviewing the video (BTW, if you want to make watching congressional hearings spellbinding, try reviewing surveillance video) so far I've found one visit from Hopkins at 2:00 am-ish where he was aimed at the fortifications:

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Then early in the am he was chased from under Mrs. Avenger's car by passing vehicles in the street, but he just bolted past the metal greenhouse.

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There was a tree rat on the chain link fence, but probably just transiting. More analysis is needed. Likely a lot of caffeine as well.

Because surveillance video.

Updates as events warrant.

My initial reaction to your problem was tree rats, as both their red-headed (red squirrels), and Disney cousins (chipmunks) would love to nosh on my tomatoes and pumpkins here.

 

[wader]

I know everyone is hanging on this, so let me get this out right niw.

I'm reviewing the video (BTW, if you want to make watching congressional hearings spellbinding, try reviewing surveillance video) so far I've found one visit from Hopkins at 2:00 am-ish where he was aimed at the fortifications:

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Then early in the am he was chased from under Mrs. Avenger's car by passing vehicles in the street, but he just bolted past the metal greenhouse.

View attachment 104047

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There was a tree rat on the chain link fence, but probably just transiting. More analysis is needed. Likely a lot of caffeine as well.

Because surveillance video.

Updates as events warrant.

I told ya - bologna & antifreeze was the way to go...

 

[Avenger]

My initial reaction to your problem was tree rats, as both their red-headed (red squirrels), and Disney cousins (chipmunks) would love to nosh on my tomatoes and pumpkins here.

Final report on tomato predation.

I finished painting a couple of pieces of wood that were for odd projects. I mention this because it worked to my advantage whenever I started to go cross-eyed from watching surveillance video I could get a mental pick-me-up by watching the paint dry.

My first inclination was tree-rats also, and it's starting to look like we weren't entirely off the mark. It appears to be a group effort, since this critter came a knocking:

So a round of antifreeze and baloney sandwiches for everyone.

Or, I'll just keep the tomahtoes penned in.

Still an awful lot if work for something I don't eat. Kind of like fishing.

 

[Chevy1]

Found this little guy ( rabbit)while mowing my daughter’s yard he was the only survivor of whatever ripped apart his siblings. My daughter bought the proper milk and a nipple feeder to try to keep it alive

 

[Avenger]

Found this little guy ( rabbit)while mowing my daughter’s yard he was the only survivor of whatever ripped apart his siblings.

Wasn't a lawnmower by any chance, was it?

 

[Chevy1]

Wasn't a lawnmower by any chance, was it?

That’s the first thing I thought everybody would say so. I did not mow around the nest until my daughter. Her fiancé saw that I did not touch the nest with the lawnmower.

 

[Chevy1]

Today’s update the rabbit is doing much better. They put something on his wound on his stomach and he’s been eating regularly from the nipple feeder. I think he’s gonna make it.

 

[dsedy]

Big red tail came to visit this evening. Was looking around for something in the trees and bushes

 

[wader]

Today’s update the rabbit is doing much better. They put something on his wound on his stomach and he’s been eating regularly from the nipple feeder. I think he’s gonna make it.

fattening him up for a meal?

 

[wader]

Big red tail came to visit this evening. Was looking around for something in the trees and bushes


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nice action photo

 

[dsedy]

nice action photo

cell phone pictures wish I had my SLR on me at the time

 

[wader]

cell phone pictures wish I had my SLR on me at the time

lot to be said for that.......................

Always had this thing against "digital photography"......

 

[Roccus7]

Love it when their eyes are bugging out!!

Walked into my shed on Friday to see a mouse scooting around. Put 2 traps down, got one, and they were still there yesterday, scurrying around in broad daylight. Baited 4 traps and this AM got 2 more. I took great glee in this one, little bastard…

 

[Chevy1]

fattening him up for a meal?

Unfortunately, he did not survive

 

[Avenger]

There doesn't seem to be a gardening thread here, which is fine BTW, I'm just fooling around with this stuff on a small scale, and this isn't landscaping.

So to follow up in to the critter thread I've deemed the critter cages a success since the 'maters are ripening nicely and none of them have gone missing. At least the one plant. The other hasn't been quite as productive.

I was also harvesting and pruning some parsley when this critter suddenly jumped out of them:

Didn't spot him in the parsley, until he leapt out of the parsley. At least there won't be bugs in the parsley with Mr. Mantis on guard.

 

[cany]

@Avenger
vegetable garden

 

[Avenger]

@Avenger
vegetable garden

Ah ha! Thanks.

 

[Avenger]

Apparently the mantis was not on the job. This thing was quite small when I first spotted it, but it's grown quite a bit.

At first we considered it might be from the monarch family, but thanks to the innerneck we discovered that it is known as a parsley worm.

It's a critter that specializes in parsley, carrots and fennel and that kind of thing, so we were considering offing it. But the article explains that it will turn into a Black Swallowtail which they describe as an important pollinator.

Conveniently, I had taken a pic of a black swallowtail at the family compound upstate a few years ago. So we can see what its final iteration looks like.

In the end, we've considered that A: It's only one, and we have two parsley plants, and how much parsley does one actually need? 2: It's a vital insect which we have an opportunity to watch develop and hopefully we'll get to see grow into a unique and interesting butterfly.

Thus we've decided to allow it to persist and that the term parsley worm is prejudicial. We shall henceforth refer to it as the Parsleypillar.

Further updates as events warrant.

 

[Chevy1]

Apparently the mantis was not on the job. This thing was quite small when I first spotted it, but it's grown quite a bit.

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At first we considered it might be from the monarch family, but thanks to the innerneck we discovered that it is known as a parsley worm.

It's a critter that specializes in parsley, carrots and fennel and that kind of thing, so we were considering offing it. But the article explains that it will turn into a Black Swallowtail which they describe as an important pollinator.

Conveniently, I had taken a pic of a black swallowtail at the family compound upstate a few years ago. So we can see what its final iteration looks like.

View attachment 104877

In the end, we've considered that A: It's only one, and we have two parsley plants, and how much parsley does one actually need? 2: It's a vital insect which we have an opportunity to watch develop and hopefully we'll get to see grow into a unique and interesting butterfly.

Thus we've decided to allow it to persist and that the term parsley worm is prejudicial. We shall henceforth refer to it as the Parsleypillar.

Further updates as events warrant.

They eat more than you would think