Tag Archives: woodchucks

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Miscellaneous musings.

August 15, 2021 Rivergirl 11 Comments

I saw this the other day and was sorely tempted.

I totally need cherry tomato toting ants.

In other local news….

Such a neighborly thing to do.

And lately a dip in the pool has been sounding wonderful with temps being hot, hot, hot.

Of course this is Maine, so while it felt like 104 one morning…

Two days later it felt like 45.

I replanted my left over garden bed with geraniums after the baby woodchucks ate all the petunias.

But not before the little ~~bastards~~ darlings chewed all the leaves off my gay feather.

At least they left the blooms this time.

🥴

Now I’m wondering what an appropriate beef jerky card message would be.

I wanna hold your ham?

Nice to meat you?

Don’t go bacon my heart.

I have a t-bone to pick with you?

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Because I had to….

August 8, 2021 Rivergirl 12 Comments

We had a spell of wicked dry weather this summer. No rain for weeks… so everything was brown and dry.

Including the chucker family. They’re too short to reach the bird bath I kept filling, so I took to offering them a drink on their level.

I’d never watered woodchucks before and wasn’t sure how they’d take to it….

But the poor thirsty things ran right to the bowl as soon as I walked back into the house.

Guess they needed something to wash down those weeds.

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Busted!

August 6, 2021 Rivergirl 14 Comments

I don’t often catch the baby woodchucks nibbling my flowers but this little dude was quite brazen.

Strolled right up on the deck and started chewing the bloomless petunia I’d transplanted from the garden to a pot because they were eating it.

Yeah.

That worked well….

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There’s safety in numbers.

July 25, 2021 Rivergirl 15 Comments

In life, you sometimes have to fight for what’s yours.

And if you’re a baby woodchuck, you have to fight birds.

They’re always in the way…

And always eating your food.

At times, you’re outnumbered.

And when that happens?

You call in reinforcements.

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When the buffet gets crowded.

July 24, 2021 Rivergirl 19 Comments

When the nightly buffet of apples and deer grain is laid…

I also put out some special grain free dry dog food with taurine for the fox and skunks.

Problem is the woodchucks and ducks like it as well and scarf it up quickly.

But sometimes they have competition.

And a stand off with Starlings begins.

Sometimes it gets physical.

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When your brother gets on your last nerve.

July 22, 2021 Rivergirl 11 Comments

Two baby woodchucks showed up for apples yesterday. ( we put them out for the deer but these little guys are beating them to it )

The chuck on the right seemed to be annoying his brother with his close proximity.

Before long they were squabbling.

And a sibling scuffle ensued.

Left woodchuck held his ground, as well as his apple.

And right woodchuck was forced to step aside.

Family.

What are ya gonna do?

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Mother and child..

July 20, 2021 Rivergirl 12 Comments

What… you were expecting Christ and the Madonna?

Sorry, wrong blog.

On my page you get momma chucker and the baby that sticks close to her side.

She’s started to swat them away when they try to nurse….

But brings them to the buffet every day.

Happily they love to eat broad leaf weeds.

Because momma’s not sharing her apples.

Starling photo bomb on the left.

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The great goat escape and other random nonsense.

July 18, 2021 Rivergirl 19 Comments

Most of the time the Facebook ‘memory’ feature annoys me, but last week it flashed back to this day 8 years ago and I had to laugh.

Because 8 years ago that day our farming neighbor’s goats broke free and headed straight to our house. Have you ever tried to herd goats? As our neighbor will tell you…

It’s not a one man job. We chased them around our property for quite a while and got nowhere, but with reinforcements we eventually managed to shoo them back home.

In other news, I saw this and had to share.