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OAITW r.2.0

(28,845 posts) Thu Jul 15, 2021, 07:20 PM Jul 2021

So, my new neighbor - Mr. Woodchuck - showed back up tonight. [View all]

First saw him 2 weeks ago on the back lawn. Chowing down. Now he's hanging on the slope in front of the backdeck. Can't smell me because I'm 15 ft above him. Eyesight is marginal, but sense of smell is keen. Still, he seems OK with me on the back deck, moving around and playing my music.

But...just had a hawk come in from the wrong attack vector, lucky for Mr. Woodchuck. Saw it, and into the pucker-brush he went. Had the hawk come in on a w->e vector, he could have feasted on a fat groundhog tonight.

Such is life.

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So, my new neighbor - Mr. Woodchuck - showed back up tonight. [View all] OAITW r.2.0 Jul 2021 OP

Think I saw 'mine' recently too! elleng Jul 2021 #1

It ain't a great life being a Woodchuck (or Groundhog, can't tell which).... OAITW r.2.0 Jul 2021 #3

How much wood would a wood chuck chuck, IF elleng Jul 2021 #4

Must be a Groundhog then, Ellen. OAITW r.2.0 Jul 2021 #6

Sure won't send them FURTHER north! elleng Jul 2021 #8

With a stop in NE Kansas MuseRider Jul 2021 #9

NO! MY osprey are NOT going to KANSAS! elleng Jul 2021 #10

I think they're the same critter EYESORE 9001 Jul 2021 #12

Your Mr. Woodchuck might not be too different than mine. TheBlackAdder Jul 2021 #2

Sorry to hear.... OAITW r.2.0 Jul 2021 #5

Well, he dug under the block foundation and popped up on the inside of the dirt crawlspace. TheBlackAdder Jul 2021 #7

I have a few red squirrels who hang out in my feeders. They do not like each other! I've had them OAITW r.2.0 Jul 2021 #11

I want a photo! BigmanPigman Jul 2021 #13

50.00 USD. OAITW r.2.0 Jul 2021 #14

Our yard is owned by 3 or 4 Mockingbirds. We pay the taxes but they own the yard. 3Hotdogs Jul 2021 #15

4 crows arrive at the crack of dawn. OAITW r.2.0 Jul 2021 #16