What interesting creatures live in your garden?

[Lavender2]

Have you got a video camera? I'd love to see that! Brilliant idea with the cooking spray, I'll make a note of that for future bird feeders.

I wish I had a video camera, and my phone is really dumb. But yeah, it was hilarious... you gotta try it, if only for laughs. I will have a hard time razzing Mom about her squirrel watching after laughing so much .. all by my self...

I think it may have worked for the raccoons also, as the feeder was untouched this morning and I know they have been coming at night... they totally destroyed a new feeder a few nights ago...

 

[sumi]

Pity! I'd have loved to see that.

Raccoons are a pain, from what I heard. I'm glad we don't get them here, but then we have mongoose... Not my favourite animal after they wiped out a whole lot of my chickens.

 

[thistlebloom]

I am probably easily entertained ... ... but yesterday I foiled the squirrels by hanging a feeder on a tall shepherds hook, sprayed the pole with cooking spray ... ever seen a rodent slide down a firepole ...

That's a good one!

I used dish soap. It worked about once.
We thought we were clever by taking the feeders off the trees and hanging two of them on a shepherds hook. Dh even went to the trouble to cement it in. A few days later a squirrel was happily climbing up and eating again. I'll fix him! I marched out with my liquid dish soap and squirted down the pole. Come back in, stand at the kitchen window, squirrel takes a jump, grabs the pole and slowly slides down. Yeah, we got a good laugh out of that one . The very next day he figured out that he could jump from the tree to the feeder. So now they don't even bother to climb the pole.

 

[baymule]

I am probably easily entertained ... ... but yesterday I foiled the squirrels by hanging a feeder on a tall shepherds hook, sprayed the pole with cooking spray ... ever seen a rodent slide down a firepole ...

My daughter and son in law did that on their bird feeder pole--too funny!!

 

[journey11]

My DS found this beauty in MIL's garden:

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I bet that one will morph into something pretty!

 

[sumi]

I bet that one will morph into something pretty!

I hope I'll get to see it. Goodness, it was cold here 2 nights ago, I hope the poor thing survived.

 

[sumi]

More funny squirrel moments. I got this pic off BYC:

 

[Nyboy]

Sumi do you have any problems with monkeys?

 

[Nyboy]

Had a mother wild turkey and about dozen of her chicks in garden, hopefully filling up on ticks.

 

[seedcorn]

Turkey's love to eat seedlings as well. Worse pests than Canadian geese.