I agree, poor baby chick.
This is the area that I usually leave to clean up until spring arrives so the birds and other animals that come up from the river can feed on the remains but this is also the area that Rick Corey diagnosed as "slug soup."
It's where my slug soup Blacked Eyed Susans and leave hopper Echinaceas are planted so I want to clean it up before to many seeds fall to the ground and replant themselves.
That's why I was wondering if the slugs would still show up if I removed all of the debis since they wouldn't have much to chow dwn on.