I went outside this morning to check on our bird feeders. One was gone. A plastic suet feeder that hung six feet from the ground was gone. Nowhere in sight. So, who took it? We narrowed it down to a raccoon or a bear. And eliminated Bob, our neighbor, who doesn't like suet.
This is one of the joys of living at the foot of a small mountain with woods stretching down to our back yard, and with moving water and a big pond nearby. Wildlife flourishes. I've written before about three different bear sightings. But we've also had lots of turkeys, (including some this morning in our yard), deer, raccoon, possum, red fox, woodchucks, a few snakes, hawks, and rhinos. Just kidding about the rhinos, but one might show up any time.
The smaller varmints have come boldly up on our back porch and eaten cat food we set out for our two cats, one who stays out all the time because she likes to poop and pee in the house, and do so in one of our suitcases under the bed, and on a nice rug. She doesn't care for kitty litter.
A couple of mornings we've had a bird seed bin tipped over and seeds scattered across the porch. We continue to feed the cats and their friends they're sharing their food with, but the bird seed bin is now kept in a 10x14 metal storage shed with a sliding door.
If I go out there some morning to get bird seed and the door is ripped away and the seed bin gone, I'll be hoping I never come face to face with whomever did it. Might be the rhino.
