Are you bothered by "nature"?

In the summer, pregnant female rabbits will dig a hole in the grass and deposit the young; cover with a little grass and leave them, and then I'm left with a hole to fill. It happened twice last year on the side of the house. They used to do it in the fenced-in backyard in the past by going under the fence, but I added some screening which stopped that.

Two years ago, something was living under my neighbor's shed and would burrow under the fence between us and dig holes, looking for grubs I assume. I never saw the critter and don't know what it was. I used to fill the burrow but it would make a new one, so I left it be but put out poison there which apparently worked. No more critter. Now it's just squirrels and birds that I feed but they're harmless and nice to watch.
 

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Are you bothered by "nature"?​

Yeah
The blacktail deer here in town are present year round

No bother

Up at the cabin?
Mulies were rife, in season
No chance for a garden up there

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Coyotes, wolves, bear, bobcats, big cats, hawks, eagles.......no bother
I think I was more of a bother to them
 
I have a love/hate relationship with nature. Trees, flowers, mountain lakes, picturesque creeks, cute little rabbits, deer, squirrels, birds...all on the love end. Moles, snakes, spiders, those creepy beetles with pincers (whatever they are), mosquitos, termites, fire ants, locusts...way on the other end of the spectrum.

Of course there's the non-animal/plant related nature things that bother me...tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, viruses, volcanoes, etc.
 
The last few years armadillos have begun migrating into upstate South Carolina from further south. i can’t believe how destructive they are. I really don’t want them to take up residence on our property . Dislike groundhogs too.
We coexist with deer, turkeys, possums, skunks, raccoons, rabbits, squirrels on an almost daily basis.
 
Chet said:
In the summer, pregnant female rabbits will dig a hole in the grass and deposit the youn; cover with a little grass and leave them, and then I'm left with a hole to fill. It happened twice last year on the side of the house. They used to do it in the fenced-in backyard in the past by going under the fence, but I added some screening which stopped that.

Two years ago, something was living under my neighbor's shed and would burrow under the fence between us and dig holes, looking for grubs I assume. I never saw the critter and don't know what it was. I used to fill the burrow but it would make a new one, so I left it be but put out poison there which apparently worked. No more critter. Now it's just squirrels and birds that I feed but they're harmless and nice to watch.
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Hopefully, none of the arboreal wildlife died from that poison. Where I live, it is illegal to put out such poison for that reason.
 
The rooks spend the night on our roof, and make a lot of noise with their squabbling. Magpies sit on the Sky dish and squawk outside my window. I do see rats across the road, but not on our premises. Caterpillars and slugs eat my plants...birds steal my strawberries...
 
MarkD said:
Yes. I got my very first gopher in my garden this year and it had its fill of the roots of most of the bulbs in my largest raised bed. It seems to have left now that I’ve dug up and potted everything until I can gopher proof the whole thing. First one I’ve seen here in over thirty years. I would strangle it to death if I could find and catch it but no sign of it any more.
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Strangle it? That is brutal. I hope you are joking.
 
Every so often we have the coyotes howl. But now it's winter, they're not so vocal. I go to the part to hand out food for squirrels.
 
once had a whole herd/school/flock of wild turkeys in my neighborhood. my dobie wouldn't go out even when they were on the other side of my backyard fence. OH, wild turkeys CAN fly!

a neighboring township has a BAN on feeding wild turkeys. seems they were hiding out near school tracks just waiting for walkers to arrive. they were coming out of the woods DEMANDING food!
 

Are you bothered by "nature"?​


No not at all. I live in the middle of it and love it . I try to find a middle ground and live in harmony with it. Your mileage may very. Sounds like the deer are rutting in your area. May be the first rut or may be the second rut. Where I live the rut is usually in the middle to end of October and then again sometime in December. Bucks go crazy during the rut and will do all kinds of crazy things they would not ordinarily do in other times of the year. I saw one run all the way across a field and head but my sons truck one time.

The rut usually lasts about a week or so and then they calm back down. I spread hard corn around in the woods a couple hundred yards away from the house. Most times it keeps the wildlife in the woods. I have two big trash cans by the house and have never had any critters get into it. Mice like to keep warm in winter and cool in the summer. I found all the places they could get in and put steel wool in the cracks and holes where they can get in. Works for me. Good luck.
 
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So far,no. I enjoy wildlife and nature. We have everything here including skunks, squirrels, rabbits, deer, elk, foxes, wolves and coyotes and bears and mountain lions and lynx. As long as they behave themselves, I enjoy them all. Very much. :giggle:

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I get groundhogs and possums. Once my cat had a possum cornered in my garden, and I had to retrieve the cat before a physical altercation ensued. The groundhogs are large and chubby, and pose more of a problem by their burrowing. I successfully repelled some of them from under my storage shed by poking ammonia-soaked rags underneath it. I hear guns being fired after dark, and hope that groundhogs are being targeted rather than misidentified cats… 😾
 
In the past, I have had a skunk, a woodchuck, and a rabbit living under my house. Not all at the same time. I believe it was the rabbit living under my house, that I saw dead on my street on Easter morning. Yes, Peter Cottontail, was the victim of a hit and run. It's common where I live to see dead squirrels, skunks, raccoons, possums, and occasionally, a deer on or beside the road.
 
1983...in a rented camper with very poor headlights, driving late at night in the middle of nowhere heading for Kruger Park, South Africa, too late to stop, hit a python, the head was already over the other side of the road and the tail still coming out of the bush.

Someone asked, when I returned to Riyadh, if the snake was OK......I said "Yeah, as if I'm going to wander around in pitch darkness to see if a 25-30' python was uninjured".
 
I enjoy nature, and I like critters but I'm occasionally annoyed by them. The squirrels that scamper around my property are fine except they like to steal birdseed. Deer are everywhere here. I have to protect my garden from them, or they'll eat all the blossoms off everything. They especially like squash and melon blossoms. I also have a groundhog who makes himself at home. I chase him when I see him. There have been a few snakes and three have managed to infiltrate my house! :oops: I disposed of them all by myself. Occasionally, I see a fox ambling along the back of my property. There are plenty of birds who enjoy the water bath under the shade tree in my yard. I like watching them, but they're very noisy, and sometimes they get on my nerves.
 

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