There have been four Squirrels combing the grass for weeks underneath the hanging Bird Feeder in the backyard.
Above them the Carolina Wrens have been shelling seeds and singing a happy spring yodel song. One a distance away answers. it sounds like an echo. When the Squirrels get too lively the wrens chatter and hiss.
Just now watching from the Kitchen Window, i counted two wrens and FIVE squirrels. The new small one has a hairless tail. I smell a Rat. Four squirrels begin running around in circles, ricocheting off trees. The rat runs up a tall pine tree, then walks slowly right down it defying gravity. It disappeared thru the Red Tips and over to the neighbors.
Note: I bought some traps, but only got the courage to set one once. The rats disappeared. My neighbor must have been braver.
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
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