tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27662400.post3949149730725915016..comments2024-03-17T02:20:03.772-05:00Comments on Riding With The Top Down: Are these turkeys after my veggies?Kathleen Eaglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13561028604927993773noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27662400.post-77974765260772107332009-06-27T13:40:40.597-05:002009-06-27T13:40:40.597-05:00Virginia, doesn't that just frost you when cri...Virginia, doesn't that just frost you when critters do that. . . take a nibble or two and move on to the next tomato or strawberry or whatever? Why can't they show come manners and eat the whole thing and leave the rest alone? I can't imagine what sort of survival value such a feeding practice would have.<br /><br />Kathy, I share both your interest and your incredulity about the wild turkeys. They're fascinating and far wilier critters than their domesticated cousins. I confess, I didn't mind a little goose poop around the place when I lived in Minnesota. . . because that meant we would get to watch the babies grow up.<br /><br />We had a couple of racoons in our garage in Minnesota. . . one climbed onto the bicycles we had hung on racks for the winter, and he wouldn't come down. We tried everything. Finally had to leave one garage door open and just go inside and let him find his own way out. It worked. Go figure.<br /><br />Down here we get armadillos (pesky little tanks!)and possums digging all over our yard. We bought a raccoon-sized Hav-A-Heart trap and regularly have to take the critters out to the country and let them go. . . which is tricky. They hang onto the trap and won't let go. You have to open the door and let them back out in their own time. sigh.Betina Krahnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11379124690406269848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27662400.post-48174290399010248972009-06-27T12:49:39.654-05:002009-06-27T12:49:39.654-05:00I have trouble with ground hogs getting into my to...I have trouble with ground hogs getting into my tomatoes! I live in town but there is an old house next door and they have moved in there. I put my tomatoes out by the deck, then I will put a fence around them and those ground hog will come up on the deck and get the tomatoes. They only take a bite or two out of them and go to another one. I trapped one last year and didn't see anymore but they are back again this year.Virginiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06924888528166831610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27662400.post-3184905701650748272009-06-27T12:26:16.707-05:002009-06-27T12:26:16.707-05:00Hey, Lois, here's my new MN state motto:
Nove...Hey, Lois, here's my new MN state motto:<br /><br />November through May<br />Keeps the Burmese python away.Kathleen Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13561028604927993773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27662400.post-31383778353041729202009-06-27T10:06:59.005-05:002009-06-27T10:06:59.005-05:00Melissa, we're seeing turkeys more often in ou...Melissa, we're seeing turkeys more often in our 'burbs. It used to be the Canada geese that were the big fowl road hazard. The news that they were rounding them up and gassing them in NY was pretty unsettling. In MN we spent a lot of $ relocating a bunch of them a few years ago. Animal advocates protested that it was cruel to break up families.<br /><br />I heard that the irony of the NY executions was that they did DNA testing on the remains of the critters found in the plane engines, and they were definitely migrating geese. Next we'll be trying to stop them from migrating.Kathleen Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13561028604927993773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27662400.post-2690095347482613472009-06-27T09:57:56.695-05:002009-06-27T09:57:56.695-05:00Bear in the pickup bed. Thanks, Gun Diva. I neede...Bear in the pickup bed. Thanks, Gun Diva. I needed a pickup scene. Now, how shall I spell the B word ...Kathleen Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13561028604927993773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27662400.post-49086130936830242432009-06-27T09:53:00.281-05:002009-06-27T09:53:00.281-05:00We have hawks in our yard every year. Broad-tail ...We have hawks in our yard every year. Broad-tail hawks that sit in the bird bath and splash about. Took a pic of one sitting on my back step once. We also get coons and lots of bunnies.<br /><br />Weird, only in that we're in the middle of suburbia and very close to a major highway.Michele Haufhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12255612473985897103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27662400.post-14258896236764625672009-06-27T01:56:18.774-05:002009-06-27T01:56:18.774-05:00LOL, I DO!! They are everywhere around here in KY...LOL, I DO!! They are everywhere around here in KY this time of year. I sold my sister my Focus when I bought a new Mariner....I'd had that baby for 5 years, and it was like new. My sister had it for TWO days, and she comes home is like guess what?? I knocked the mirror off on the drivers side. I was like, what did you DO?? She said I hit a damn turkey on the way to work...and it broke the mirror off!! And to make it worse, when she got to work one of the other women was late, and when she finally got to work she said they had held them up at the gate (she works on Ft. Knox) while they cleaned up a turkey someone had hit~~and there were feathers everywhere.Musings by Mimmihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11844515214775979393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27662400.post-65267605799501233862009-06-26T21:43:40.948-05:002009-06-26T21:43:40.948-05:00My step-father recently found bear scat in the bac...My step-father recently found bear scat in the back of his truck. Apparently the bear crawled onto the flat bed to try to get into the back window to get the tasty food that had inadvertently been left in the back seat. At least, that's what we're speculating since bears are supposed to go in the woods, not the bed of the truck :)GunDivahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02965363044411500380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27662400.post-25011457324002959552009-06-26T20:55:02.669-05:002009-06-26T20:55:02.669-05:00I read an article recently of moose found in someo...I read an article recently of moose found in someone's basement. He had gone through the patio doors. In the picture he looked extremely content. Sometimes I love MN, but it's usually between April and October. :)lois greimanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05758677401591191607noreply@blogger.com