wildlife in the city
Theladygardens@aol.com (Fri, 01 Nov 2013 13:54:19 PDT)

I was gone most of the last year and many wild animals moved into my
garden. I now have a coyote living there and have left him alone because he is
taking care of the many bunnies and rats that moved in. Of course the
garden became an overgrown mess while I was gone. I'm working on it 6' at a
time.
A couple of years ago we had a flock of wild turkeys in the garden every
morning. There were 2 mothers and 11 babies. We were having a large yearly
picnic on the party patio and expecting 85 guests. My husband said
"wouldn't it be nice if the turkeys showed up in the garden so people could see
them". Well, they did, all of the tablecloths and decorations were ready,
it was about 10 minutes before the guests arrived and the turkeys showed up.
They messed all over everything, walked up the double wide staircase to
the house and messed over it seems every inch. We were frantic changing
tablecloths, mopping up and hosing down the patio, steps and such as fast as we
could. Everything was clean but very wet when the guests arrived. And of
course the turkeys flew off. We don't wish for such things anymore.