Faunascrolling--what's visiting where you are?

Mik

Having coffee on the deck. There was a squirrel digging in a mole hill. He dug himself like a foxhole. Never saw them do that before.

rustyfingers

Baby Mr. Bunn camouflaged himself in a pile of leaves near where he toppled yesterday and stayed there for hours. Not there today.

wtg

I figured out this morning when I saw the whole plant wilted that a damn chipmunk chewed off the stem of a cucumber plant an inch above ground. Goner. Grrrr....

Mik

Just saw an 8 point buck go by my office window.

rustyfingers

Chipmunk ate every single tomato. Thecomputerdude is furious. ️

wtg

I blamed the chipmunk but a squirrel was actually the perpetrator. My neighbor saw him yesterday afternoon around dinner time in the bed where the two burpless cuke plants are.

wtg

I have to download videos and/or photos from my Birdfy cam....lots of birds coming to bathe in the wtg yard!!

Hopefully I'll post them later tonight....

wtg

A few of our visitors.

A previous bather splashed the camera lens before this guy arrived:

Link to video

Mik

We usually have a lot of titmice. Not sure where they’ve been lately.

rustyfingers

@wtg is there a fountain? How do you keep mosquitoes away?

wtg

@rustyfingers I change the water twice a day.

Mik

We got our first ever Brown Thrasher this morning.

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Bernard

I had to go out to close the shed door which I'd left open this afternoon and, more importantly, fetch the bottle of wine that I left in the car from shopping yesterday. Flipped on the lights for the deck and there were three raccoons cautiously edging their way towards the bird feeding area. Aw. I interrupted their supper. I made sure to shut the lights as soon as I got back in so they can have a nosh.