Here in New Jersey, close to the Delaware River, there are small birds, larger birds, an infrequent hawk looking for a meal from the visitors at the bird feeders. And once a peacock! by the compost heap. He had wandered down the road from a neighbor's house, sampling a leaf here, a blossom there. Gray squirrels under or on the bird feeder. Chipmunks and voles - didn't know chipmunks were climbers but there you are. This year for the first time one went up into a Callicarpa and harvested all the bright violet berries before the leaves even fell. There used to be a 7:00 p.m. rabbit eating clover from the lawn outside the kitchen but haven't seen it for a year. Occasional raccoon. But the largest herbivores are the white tail deer, sometimes peering in the kitchen window for coffee to go with the salad bar aka my garden. Solo, duo, up to as many as 8 to 12. This winter's hunter has not yet been successful, but I still have some venison in the freezer. Locavore, free range, and I certainly do know what they have been eating. Judy in quite chilly New Jersey eager to see the end of 2020 -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Deer_2020-04_yearling.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 281461 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>
