There's so many of these guys the cats have no chance to sneak up on them,they do the tail and noise signals and wait them out.A cat did get a mockingbird Sunday.
Our first clue that we had feral cats was a squirrel corpse. Birds? There are feathers everywhere, all the time.
Thanks to our feral cat colony we've seen almost no squirrels this season. We may actually get some of the pecans from our tree this year.
There's so many of these guys the cats have no chance to sneak up on them,they do the tail and noise signals and wait them out.A cat did get a mockingbird Sunday.
I've got a squirrel highway up there.They shake them off in bunches when they're playing squirrel tag and it sounds like a pack of firecrackers going off.Then a few of them jump off the roof from about 10 feet up and it sounds like mortars.
Thanks to our feral cat colony we've seen almost no squirrels this season. We may actually get some of the pecans from our tree this year.
I've got a squirrel highway up there.They shake them off in bunches when they're playing squirrel tag and it sounds like a pack of firecrackers going off.Then a few of them jump off the roof from about 10 feet up and it sounds like mortars.
When I lived in California, one time I got into a debate with a neighbor about what made more racket: Avocados (my yard) or walnuts (his). He alleged that by the time avocados fall, they're pretty soft, but I said that wasn't true always and they still made a pretty good thump/splick noise. It was worse when one would fall from the top of the tree... they'd get up some good speed and would make like a giant pachinko game and crack branches all the way down. The walnuts have a husk too but they separate from that a lot and when a lot fall at once onto his concrete driveway, he said it sounded like gunfire.
I've got a squirrel highway up there.They shake them off in bunches when they're playing squirrel tag and it sounds like a pack of firecrackers going off.Then a few of them jump off the roof from about 10 feet up and it sounds like mortars.
Acorns the size of your average poodle bouncing off my roof.
When I lived in California, one time I got into a debate with a neighbor about what made more racket: Avocados (my yard) or walnuts (his). He alleged that by the time avocados fall, they're pretty soft, but I said that wasn't true always and they still made a pretty good thump/splick noise. It was worse when one would fall from the top of the tree... they'd get up some good speed and would make like a giant pachinko game and crack branches all the way down. The walnuts have a husk too but they separate from that a lot and when a lot fall at once onto his concrete driveway, he said it sounded like gunfire.
