Hell of a year for rodents
Last fall the white pines dropped a huge amount of pine cones. As a result, the squirrel, chipmunk, and mouse populations are way up, and they are doing their mischief. The list this year so far: Ch...
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A few years ago we had a couple of hawks a Bald Eagle and a couple of Golden Eagles.
There was one real beautiful hawk. He would watch me on the porch and I would go through the house to the rear porch and here he would come sitting in a big oak looking at me. I didn't think of a way to get him down to the railing.
Anyway, he would fly down next to the stream turn 180 degrees, look around, ta3ke a set forward and apparently eat or at least kill what was in his claws. He got rid of a lot of field mice, somewhat scarce native rodents, and rats.
He also caught a bluebird outside our bed room window in flight. We didn't like that much. He ate everything from inside the shell of feathers.
Well they cleaned them all out pretty much. Been thinking of letting the field/yard grow up to draw the birds back.
I saw one of the resident Crows with a mouse in it's beak a few days ago. They regularly patrol the yard/field for grubs and anything else. Still have some trying to get under the porch. The semi resident cat hasn't been doing his job.
I would get another pet racoon but he would dig up a bunch of holes and tear thing up getting them. One we had tried to pry the wall paper apart at the seam we couldn't see.
Tractor Supply and some bait stations is on the list.
Two years ago a Black Racer crawled under my foot to escape.
He might be about 4 ft by now. They are intelligent and learn like dogs.
If I can find him and turn him loose here at the house he would solve any rodent problems. Wife doesn't think highly of it however.
There was one real beautiful hawk. He would watch me on the porch and I would go through the house to the rear porch and here he would come sitting in a big oak looking at me. I didn't think of a way to get him down to the railing.
Anyway, he would fly down next to the stream turn 180 degrees, look around, ta3ke a set forward and apparently eat or at least kill what was in his claws. He got rid of a lot of field mice, somewhat scarce native rodents, and rats.
He also caught a bluebird outside our bed room window in flight. We didn't like that much. He ate everything from inside the shell of feathers.
Well they cleaned them all out pretty much. Been thinking of letting the field/yard grow up to draw the birds back.
I saw one of the resident Crows with a mouse in it's beak a few days ago. They regularly patrol the yard/field for grubs and anything else. Still have some trying to get under the porch. The semi resident cat hasn't been doing his job.
I would get another pet racoon but he would dig up a bunch of holes and tear thing up getting them. One we had tried to pry the wall paper apart at the seam we couldn't see.
Tractor Supply and some bait stations is on the list.
Two years ago a Black Racer crawled under my foot to escape.
He might be about 4 ft by now. They are intelligent and learn like dogs.
If I can find him and turn him loose here at the house he would solve any rodent problems. Wife doesn't think highly of it however.
