Back yard critters

[Chevy1]

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.

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

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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.

We do have a vegetable garden thread

 

[cany]

We do have a vegetable garden thread

Showed him that a while back

 

[Chevy1]

Didn’t get a pic but at about 4:00 a hawk came down and plucked a dove off of my neighbors garage roof. It was raining feathers

 

[Avenger]

They eat more than you would think

Update:

Yes they would make Eric Carle proud.

It appears that we sacrificed a lot of garnish to fatten up the Parsleypillar just to feed a tree rat.

I'll have to check out surveillance video (please no) but I suspect a roving rodent filched our vital pollinator for lunch.

To be fair, that's what the ba$tard gets for eating his cover. But it was soooo close to doing the chrysalis thing,... I'm disappointed.