What is in your backyard?

[SubmarineGirl]

Squirrels are really invasive where I live. They ruin a lot of plants, chew open water lines, dig under foundations… cute in other people’s property and at the parks, but nearly devastating when you live and build into a hillside.

Yes they do dig holes in my fresh garden and eat a few veggies but I still like them all the same

 

[RosterMan]

 

[oldfogey8]

I saw the neighbors cat take one of my local squirrels the other day(we have had close to 2 dozen in the yard at the same time). Fkr… I have a fox that is visiting every couple of days. Sprints into the yard and chases everything he/she gets close to. I disrupted an attack the other day because it was going after one of the squirrels I recognize as ‘Tiny’ because it is small and something stripped all the fur from half its tail. Just has this pink, scabby tail. I have too much time on my hands… Sorry. Carry on…

 

[SubmarineGirl]

I saw the neighbors cat take one of my local squirrels the other day(we have had close to 2 dozen in the yard at the same time). Fkr… I have a fox that is visiting every couple of days. Sprints into the yard and chases everything he/she gets close to. I disrupted an attack the other day because it was going after one of the squirrels I recognize as ‘Tiny’ because it is small and something stripped all the fur from half its tail. Just has this pink, scabby tail. I have too much time on my hands… Sorry. Carry on…

I have a special one as well. I don’t have a name for him but he has a pellet gun injury probably from my neighbor who like to target practice and let his dog chase them. He knows I feed them and I know he shoots at them… My dog chases them too but never catches them. She’s an old thick girl.

 

[oldfogey8]

Squirrels are really invasive where I live. They ruin a lot of plants, chew open water lines, dig under foundations… cute in other people’s property and at the parks, but nearly devastating when you live and build into a hillside.

Our squirrels live in the trees. I have heard of them chewing electrical wires but that is rare. I watched a Nature program where they highlighted ground squirrels. Growing up and living in the northeast, I had no clue the west coast has squirrels that live in the ground. Chipmunks suck though. I stuff rocks in their tunnel entrances. My dog is gonna break a leg someday in one of there burrows.

 

[OGKushman]

Our squirrels live in the trees. I have heard of them chewing electrical wires but that is rare. I watched a Nature program where they highlighted ground squirrels. Growing up and living in the northeast, I had no clue the west coast has squirrels that live in the ground. Chipmunks suck though. I stuff rocks in their tunnel entrances. My dog is gonna break a leg someday in one of there burrows.

I’ve dispatched 2-300 myself over the years. Must have seen 30 new ones in my yard this year alone. There’s no use. Chicken wire and a pellet gun is all we got. Lol

 

[oldfogey8]

I’ve dispatched 2-300 myself over the years. Must have seen 30 new ones in my yard this year alone. There’s no use. Chicken wire and a pellet gun is all we got. Lol

If I start seeing more rats, I will break out the pellet gun here. I don’t like rats…

 

[oldfogey8]

hardening off the boys and girls…

 

[pute]

My security camera picked up a coon in my back yard last night. They are thick as thieves around here.

 

[RosterMan]

My security camera picked up a coon in my back yard last night. They are thick as thieves around here.

Hard to see too

 

[oldfogey8]

My security camera picked up a coon in my back yard last night. They are thick as thieves around here.

They raid my suet cakes along with a possum from time to time.

 

[Hippie420]

Yes they do dig holes in my fresh garden and eat a few veggies but I still like them all the same

Me, too. Got four flavors; Fox, gray, pine, and chipmunks. We occasionally get a black one, which is really a gray squirrel variant. They eat the deer feed, bird seeds, and the table scraps we toss out to all the critters.

Usually, Fox and Grey squirrels don't get along, but they do at Rancho Hippie.

 

[WeedHopper]

I use to hunt fox squirrels but i never shot the grays because they are to small.

 

[RosterMan]

Them makes great stew

 

[RosterMan]

I use to hunt fox squirrels but i never shot the grays because they are to small.

 

[SubmarineGirl]

Di

I use to hunt fox squirrels but i never shot the grays because they are to small.

Did you eat them?

 

[WeedHopper]

Yes mam I certainly did. I don't usually kill anything I don't or won't eat unless it was a problem I needed to get rid of.

 

[oldfogey8]

Yes mam I certainly did. I don't usually kill anything I don't or won't eat unless it was a problem I needed to get rid of.

I’m guessing the squirrels in my yard would be tasty and marbled with sunflower seed fueled fat. These things eat a lot of seed. I go thru about 80 lbs of sunflower seed every 3 weeks or so. They also get corn, suet, meal worms, oranges and oddly marrow bones. I saw one squirrel take a marrow bone up into a tree to gnaw on it a few days ago then one was running across the street yesterday carrying one in its mouth. I give my dog marrow bones and he just leaves them outside. He is lazy and spoiled…

 

[oldfogey8]

Seeing some Downey woodpecker hatchlings hanging around watching their mom teach them how to associate pecking with food by eating suet the pecking on my tree. I have what I imagine is an orphaned squirrel that tangled with something. It is very small and is missing fur from about halfway up its tail to the tip. Baltimore orioles are back as are the ruby throated hummingbirds. A killdeer breeding pair I watch has at least 3 fledglings(out of 4 eggs) and they have abandoned the nest.

 

[WeedHopper]

I was born and raised in the country until my father died.
I have killed and eaten Racoon, Possum, Rabbit ,Squirrel, Deer, and Armadillo. Nothing went to waste when i was a young man.