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Message: [QUOTE="ClifSpliffy, post: 3989573, member: 9260"] hehe 'snakes' (a fairly regular event, tho special this year cuz of [I]two[/I]). having been away from the homestead for a bit, a few days ago i head out to check the experimental/research garden. it's in the middle of a grass field, aboot 25 x 15, with 2x4 corner posts, and wrapped in deer netting. as sometimes happens, a large black snake (racer? rat? at least 4 feet) gets all bollixed up in the netting and is toast. fine, 'hey predators! free cable! do ur thing!' yesterday, i cruise out there to show some pals unfamiliar with our wild kingdom, that serpent. as we're looking at that one, i immediately notice the funk of something, and not coming from the snake at hand. nosing around the exterior high grass surrounding most of the garden, i locate an even bigger black snake, now also dead by netting. lovely. where are the army and air force of hungry critters to clean up these snacks? i did notice a mess of crows yakking and squawking in some fieldedge trees (white ash population really, really dying this year) later in the day, when i went back to plant a few yellow tomato cultivars that i've been working on. im hoping that they were yelling at me to leave the area so they could chow down in peace. there [I]will [/I]be a black bear hunting season here in Connecticut as we've gone way past 'cute, interesting' and are now firmly into 'p.i.t.a., dangerous, where's the shotgun?' territory. first the shotgun, to try and send the message to their backside, but iffn that don't work, [I]then [/I]the rifle. not a fan of killing anything, unless there is no other option. 'wolf' (ne coyote aboot 1/4 wolf dna) pups count off the charts this year. when they fire up their moonlight serenades, it sounds like the tabernacle choir. or miss wormwoods 3rd grade class recital. [/QUOTE]

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