Coyote found in downtown Detroit - will not be killed
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Comments (21)What's really weird to me is that they coexist with a fair number of homeless folks (also new around there). Their backyard backs up to a wood at the corner of their lot and there are both coyotes and poor unfortunate folks living back in there. I would have thought that either would scare away the other. (I lived on a ranch in AZ long ago and I will say right out that when I was out alone on foot I was much more afraid of a coyote pack than I was of the Mexican Timber Wolves, and those wolves will pull down an elk.)...See MoreFlorida squirrels!! ARG!
Comments (52)Well, I found this thread that was started almost a year ago to the day. Since I was late in starting my spring garden last year, I guess that might have been why I had NO problem with squirrels. This year I was able to get an early start and had most seeds/seedlings in the ground by mid-February (I live in the Largo/Seminole area). Here it is March 9th and the squirrels have pretty much destroyed at least half of each raised bed (I have 6). Planting corn was a joke. I planted it 3 weekends in a row and at first (duh) couldn't figure out what happened. But when the seedlings started getting chewed, and I had holes everywhere, it dawned on me. I sprinkled cayenne pepper over the watermelon seed mound I just replanted yesterday... only to go out this morning and find that they clearly like peppered watermelon seeds just as well as plain. I bought critter ridder yesterday too... and they dug right through it with no hesitation. I have taken the advice to put sunflower seeds on the opposite end of my garden and just give them something else to eat, but so far they haven't paid any notice. I guess I have to give it a few days. I'm an animal lover too, but boy do I get pissed off when I walk out every morning and see the damage they've done. Between them and moles, I feel like I'm losing the battle with organic, humane gardening....See MoreShould I just kill myself now?
Comments (47)Before you kill yourself, you can come over and put me out of my misery. I thought I had Lyme, but that test came back negative. Whatever I have, has made it almost impossible to walk for the last six weeks, so I haven't been out in the garden much. When I have been out, I've been shocked at how much has been eaten. I didn't mind a few nibbles now and then, but this is wholesale carnage in certain areas. This is after I almost ran over a very young fawn with the garden tractor this spring and made it run off, hopefully for good. (this is for the people who worry about mowing chipmunks) A fence is definitely in our future, but I really don't see how to only enclose the garden in a manner that doesn't look like a fortress. I'm also not sure I've really got enough room between my gardens and my neighbor's property....See MoreTree update in Galveston
Comments (10)You just try and see the positive. The island is still pretty depressing, especially if you drive around at night-you see how much is still dark and empty. I often don't see another car all the way from work to home. Burglaries are up, no surprise there, noone home, lots of tools at jobsites. There is still a serial killer running loose, no new victims, no word. The serial rapist/flasher was released from jail. Approx. 50% of the business' have reopened. They have the posts all set for Murdochs and are starting to rebuild the building. The Flagship is still empty, even the ramp hasn't been replaced. Blue tarps are still everywhere. Houses are being raised or razed. My brothers house will be raised in 3 weeks. We're still waiting on windstorm to fix the roof, no blue tarp because we have asbestos tiles & they won't put a tarp on those. There are more restaurants off the Seawall opening back. We all got our appraisals, $7,700.00 decrease for our house, $40,000 decrease for my moms, she is very upset about that. I'm fighting mine, I think with all the trees destroyed, the island with no medical care, the damage, etc. that it should be valued even less. UTMB built a wall to block off the ER and now has an "urgent" care clinic in the space next to the main ER. They put an article in the paper telling people to call 911 & not to go to the clinic. There is still little or no reconstruction going on, the cafeteria is in a tent in the parking lot, the pharmacy in a portable building in a garage.... Driving home yesterday I really noticed how many trees are dead on the East end. It is worse North of Broadway and on the West end. There was an article in yesterdays paper, there is still a watch and wait approach for trees, don't cut them down yet. It is pretty sad with so many, many dead oaks. Big, huge beautiful trees. So many dead bushes too. Hackberry is a native, did you know those nasty little berries are EDIBLE?? The Houston Chronicle actually suggested planting them as part of an edible landscape. You'd have to eat a million berries. Sometimes I wonder who writes that stuff. I knew the trash trees would all be fine. You can't kill tallow. Lots of possums on the island still. Snails and slugs are rebounding quickly. I heard tree frogs for the first time the other night. Still no toads. Found one worm all the time I've been digging, tiny baby so maybe the eggs survived and are hatching. Lots of birds, not so much for them to eat as they migrate through, they can empty 12 feeders in about an hour, without help from the gackles. Coyotes are still here. Lots of pelicans, dolphins and reports of a killer whale just offshore. The sandhill cranes were back for the winter-they've headed north already. Fishing is getting better, shrimpers still having problems with debris in the water. Oyster beds remain closed for the most part. The holes in the Seawall sidewalk have been repaired. Sand dumping is finished. Work will start soon on repairing the ramps on Seawall that were destroyed. There is a group interested in repainting the mural on the Seawall that was destroyed. Tally HO!...See Morefancifowl
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