Last Saturday our towering maple tree was cut down to a six foot tall trunk. I'll miss it very much as it was the center of my wildlife observatory and feeding stations. The tree had to go, as I've explained in a past Livejournal entry, as it kept dropping logs onto our power lines, garage, and even (when we had one) the car windshield. I'm in ( Read more... )

My next door neighbor rang our doorbell this evening to tell me she'd caught an opossum (with a trap) in her driveway. She said it had been living in her garage and "pooping in there ( Read more... )

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Late Friday night I looked out the kitchen window and saw a solid white skunk on the backyard lawn. It was searching for food. After a few seconds, a raccoon approached it, and it trotted a few steps away. The raccoon kept following it all over, and I wondered why the skunk, who clearly hated being chased, didn't just spray the raccoon. Finally ( Read more... )

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Our dumb-as-a-box-of-rocks neighbor chopped down all the milkweed plants that I’d so carefully tended this year as havens for visiting monarch butterflies. Most of them were on our property, NOT hers! When I asked her about it she said that she'd thought they were "just weeds." So then, why did she think I was carefully mowing around them, even ( Read more... )

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Today I finally contacted a wildlife rehabber who would take my birdie friend, for which I'm very grateful. So now I'm birdless. I miss my little winged one and hope she'll be all better soon. While at the rehabber's home, I saw a couple baby squirrels (*squee!*). One of them was so friendly, and almost old enough to be set free. I got to pet ( Read more... )

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