Sounds like a wonderful place to live Neal! All we get is possums, skunks, ground squirrels, gophers, blue jays, ravens, and stray cats. Once in awhile we get to see the Red Tailed Hawks flying overhead, and we have a lot of smaller birds.

I just did a round-up of a large bag full of snails in the backyard yesterday. It probably barely made a dent in the population...but I have to do something!

We have an occasional deer, racoon & possum visit. The ones I enjoy most are the quails & turkeys. This is from July 10th this summer when they took a leisurely stroll through the veggie garden. There were three mothers with at least six babies each. The photo was from a rear window to avoid scaring them off. They eventually disappeared into the corn field beyond the garden. No harm done.

gemini_sage said:Rob, so sorry to hear about Baby Bucky
I'm reminded of reading 'The Yearling' as a child and crying my eyes out.

My condolences too for the fawn & Rob!
And Neal, I still get teary-eyed whenever I watch 'The Yearling': So sad!
That was a classic film which portrayed a very tough time for those folks!

Moiris said:Sounds like a wonderful place to live Neal! All we get is possums, skunks, ground squirrels, gophers, blue jays, ravens, and stray cats. Once in awhile we get to see the Red Tailed Hawks flying overhead, and we have a lot of smaller birds.

I just did a round-up of a large bag full of snails in the backyard yesterday. It probably barely made a dent in the population...but I have to do something!

wow, there's dinner if you're so inclined...i hear you can purge them for a week with cornmeal, before consuming them?

Beautiful photos of a well-kept garden, Leon. That's some impressive corn!(plus the birds!)

I'll just say I'm definitely NOT 'so inclined' Daphne! If my dog would leave them alone I think getting chickens would be a great solution! Unfortunately the chickens wouldn't last a day!

My chickens don't particularly like slugs and snails... but something must... because I've never had a really bad problem with them.. Maybe the lizards eat them.. Lord knows I've got a lot of them running around.

Leon, it was good that you wished those turkeys into the cornfield.... (pretty cute youngsters)

When my domestic turkeys were allowed to roam, I spotted them in the garden and it looked like they were eating my basil, but upon closer inspection, they were eating the Japanese beetles off the basil. So I just left them alone.

They grow awesome corn in Indiana!!! Great pictures, Leon.

Tom -- do you still have your turkeys? I especially liked the white one!

Yes, still have RJ and his GF, but no new hatchlings this year.

Sorry Rob about the loss your fawn and Turk.

I have mostly well fed pet cats around here hunting the small birds. Occasional loose pet dogs. The ground squirrel that was eating tulips last fall and pulling up newly planted irises for the bonemeal appears to be gone(bubble gum).

We got 2 1/2" of rain yesterday. Lightly raining now.

Isn't it great to have some rain, Barb?

(I wonder why the hurray symbol always comes up in the blue box with a question mark? - the others work just fine.)

The hurray symbol looks normal on my I pad.
Edit: and the rain is wonderful!

I guess my computer is trying to rein in my enthusiasm!

AURORA WATCH RED ALERT

For anyone in the north, I have received an aurora watch red alert, saying that tonight aurora will be visible by eye and by camera from anywhere in the UK. Sadly I'm still in France - but some of you might benefit. You need to be somewhere without light pollution.

Hope someone catches it!

It only lightly sprinkled here yesterday and today. You Northerner's need to stop hogging it all up.

Weather report calls for a nice day tomorrow and then another 7 days of rain.

Glad you are getting the rain Jan, We are getting a bunch today that I wish you were getting. I hate the cold rain this time of the year.

The garden helper who did a lot in four hours last week, has fit me into her schedule.
Once or twice a month. I'm back working in the pottery studio.