Chipmunks, rabbits, and other wildlife
We were delighted to see a chipmunk reappear in our garden, after many years of their absence.
Outdoor cats in our neighborhood were the culprits - largely the cats of the apartment dwellers next door, but also those of other neighbors.
Now, with the cats largely indoor ones, chipmunks are back, eating the black oil sunflower seeds that our recent bear visitor had knocked down.
I don't mind the tradeoff -- chipmunks are fun to watch and we like to think our stone wall towards the apartment building shelters them. Some people find them pesky, but we think they're charming. Whatever.
The squirrels dig holes all around the garden; our single woodchuck (at the moment) is not particularly a pest, seemingly staying with fresh grasses over in our neighbor's landscape, and the rabbits (from up the street) haven't yet made it to our garden.
We have a pent-up fondness for rabbits, too, as they disappeared from our exurban landscape in the Piedmont of Upstate SC years ago.
We've only been seeing them here again in our urban city recently.
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Outdoor cats in our neighborhood were the culprits - largely the cats of the apartment dwellers next door, but also those of other neighbors.
Now, with the cats largely indoor ones, chipmunks are back, eating the black oil sunflower seeds that our recent bear visitor had knocked down.
I don't mind the tradeoff -- chipmunks are fun to watch and we like to think our stone wall towards the apartment building shelters them. Some people find them pesky, but we think they're charming. Whatever.
The squirrels dig holes all around the garden; our single woodchuck (at the moment) is not particularly a pest, seemingly staying with fresh grasses over in our neighbor's landscape, and the rabbits (from up the street) haven't yet made it to our garden.
We have a pent-up fondness for rabbits, too, as they disappeared from our exurban landscape in the Piedmont of Upstate SC years ago.
We've only been seeing them here again in our urban city recently.
Squirrels drive me crazy, they like to dig holes in containers and dig up newly planted plants. Rabbits are the worst, though, they eat up some of my favorite plants.
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