Jail Birds
Some weird bug:
With the birds, it’s easy to blame the crows for everything because they’re always hanging around. They squawk and squeak to each other because they’re watching your every move. They know when/where you’re planting. They’re smart and crafty even though when I’m frustrated I call them stupid birds. One of them dug up one of our newly planted squash seeds and ate the inside of it. Just left the evidence lying around for us to discover. Nice. These guys need to be locked up.
Well, how about this little guy? Isn’t he sweet and cute? Just an innocent robin right? Wrong! This 
guy is on my Most Wanted List. I actually caught him in my neighbor’s strawberry patch pecking away at a berry then has the noive (nerve) to run thru our garden and stop at our strawberry patch to eat a berry! In front of me. He’s looking at me. Does he think I don’t see him? Or is he just taunting me? Neener neener! You can’t catch me! Grr. I don’t even know how many strawberries we lost to robins. I agree those strawberries were tasty but I was hoping they’d be all for us and that we’d harvest a lot but so many were gnawed on by the robins and slugs. Thanks guys! Just help yourself! The thing is they don’t finish them off. They just leave this nice looking berry with a gaping hole in it. And of course, when they come back they find the other good ones; they don’t finish off the ones they started. A robin also helped himself to our one lonely tomato. Could’ve at least finished it instead of wasting a lot of it. Stupid bird. Before robin:
After robin:
It’s so hard to be mad at the bunnies. They really are so stinkin cute! Even the mature ones. I haven’t caught one in either of our gardens – I’m sure they’ve hopped by but I don’t think they’ve done anything to our gardens. I mean some of the rabbit faves like lettuce, untouched. They could’ve snacked on some of our earlier seedlings that seem to have gone POOF! But these guys I always end up forgiving. I get so excited when I see bunnies and like to take lots of pictures of them so here you go: 
WARNING! Nudity! ha ha! Just bunny buns. So cute!
Now, hummingbirds are NOT jailbirds. They are wonderful to see whether in flight or hanging out. I love watching them chase each other. We’ll be working on putting up a couple of hummingbird feeders soon. They are amazing.
How about them eagles? Again, not a jailbird. They’re not interested in our raw veggie garden that’s for sure. But anyway, we saw a bald eagle fly overhead. I tried taking a picture but he wouldn’t stop and say cheese!
I have more garden updates to do so I hope to get around to that this week. Maybe I’ll make it Garden Week.
And to update you guys on the Pico situation, we still don’t have him but we are going to check with the pound this week in hopes of adopting him. Pray for Pico!
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Great essay with good pics. I enjoyed this. (We are competing with a ground hog for garden food; is he the one eating my marigolds?).
(now I am thinking out loud) But then he would get bored, because you are 20 miles from your garden and he may just start digging in that garden. YIKES!
I have no solution. My husband's grandpa used to plant several extra for the birds but one would think that would just attract more not keep them in their section. The robins eat our mulberries and even leave few for us, but they don't touch the strawberries, so maybe a mulberry tree?
good luck
~a
Being my rescuer self, I started contacting rescues that work with bunnies to see if there were any Trap Neuter Release programs for rabbits here and I found that there is a rescue that works with a vet in bothell to do spay/neuters. I haven't yet tried to trap any, for the most part, the population seems to be pretty stable around here but keeping a close eye.
I have been doing quite a bit of TNR in my neighborhood with feral cats, so far, no new kittens this year! I have two more tomcats to get, they're all beat up because they fight so much so hopefully neutering will help.
Ok, holy tangent....sorry!
I'm happy to hear that you guys will be trying to find and adopt Pico! Good luck with that, let me know if there's anything I can do to help. Maybe call the vet to ask which rescue they work with so you can try to track him that way (if you hadn't already thought of that).
xoxoxo
My mom and dad always have a garden. The racoons were getting their corn all the time when they were w/o a dog. So my dad "borrowed" the neighbor's dog and tied him in the corn patch for a few nights when he knew the corn would be ripening. The racoons know the EXACT moment of perfect ripeness and will descend on the whole patch in salivating fury! I think the dog worked, because he borrowed it a few more times until they got one of their own again.
I'm not condoning the tieing up of a dog anywhere, but my dad is old-school and a dog just another (sometimes useful) critter to him.
Good luck on your harvest. Love all the pics!
XO
Pixy Lisa
Lots of love to you,
Wendi
XOXOXO