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Originally Posted by Shazam
I was wondering why there were so many giant squirrels at Edworthy.
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I declared war on the squirrels last year. They dig up my perennial flower beds, they bury rocks of all things in my annual planters, they dig such big holes in my annual planters that I usually have to replace the flowers in some of them at least once or twice a year. I no longer plant tomatoes either because as soon as they start to ripen, they nibble at them and then the rest of that tomato will rot. I don't know what it is about the rock hauling but I find them along the top of my fence and the like too.
They find the weirdest things and haul them all over too. Last year I found remains of lip gloss containers, bright pieces of what looked like shattered flower pots, and the like in my perennial flowers.
They don't like if you put out small metal sculptures either. I have a metal owl, about 15 inches high, that I had anchored in the ground. Once day it was missing. They had figured out how to get it out of the ground and pushed it behind my peony. I also had a solar owl which they first knocked off the top that glowed and then chewed up the rod it was mounted on. They are wicked little beasts.
I am now a master trapper. 51 black ones and 24 of the grayish browns have been relocated to Edworthy Park. That is how many I had visiting my back yard. So far this year, not as bad and so far I have not resorted to trapping and relocating.
The black ones are really dumb. The first day that I set the trap, I hardly had got back in my house to look if there was any action and along came a black one and he just walked right in...had one in 5 minutes.
The brownish gray ones are a bit leery to start. They sniff the bait, they will walk along the top of the cage and look down, and eventually they are enticed to get the bait.
Anyhow, it kept me amused during COVID.