It's hard to say if it lives on our property or not. Our neighbors out back are on 16 ac. & another 16 ac. beside them where a neighbor lives, we are on 6 ac. & there are varying acreages in this whole area. We do see it on a regular basis. I say "it" -- for all we know, we're seeing more than one. There's no way to tell unless you see more than 1 at a time. Sort of like trying to figure out how many hummingbirds you have.
We had really hoped this year to see kits but no such luck. We did see fox a LOT & hunting mainly squirrels. We would often see it morning & early evening so feel pretty sure it was hunting for a family. We let the fields grow though & as you can see from the photos, it's getting pretty high & thick there already in early June. By the end of June, you couldn't see anything in there so we could only see when it ventured onto any of the mowed areas like our mowed grass driveway. If there were kits in there we would never be able to see them.
We usually call the bush hog in at the end of August but this year, I guess due to the whacky weather, it was very thick & very high super early so we had the bush hog in 2 weeks ago. All my wildflowers were done & gone to seed early & things were so thick the bush hog had to raise the mower way up to get through it. He mows it down to about 6". Now we're able to see all the wildlife again. The skunks are regulars morning & evening -- they were a total of 5 but I guess the 3 kids graduated & now we only see the 2 adults.
We'll have to have the bush hog in again probably the end of this month -- maybe even again after that before winter.
