Big swan and froggie grace the deck, along with a vintage pot, all filled with succulents. A happy sight.
A nocturnal bit of fauna and marauder of ripe strawberries succumbs to the lure of peanut butter and lives no more. A dead rat is a good rat, in this gardener's opinion. One less interloper. This one is about 12" long (including tail) and looks like a pregnant female. When I went out to pick strawberries for our morning cereal yesterday, all the big juicy ones were missing so we knew what to do. This was the scene at the strawberry patch this morning. We had hoped that our much improved fence would discourage the buggers, but it's back to the traps. You'd think that our neighbors would clean up the brush piles in their yards...not only for the rats, but also for the fire danger!
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