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If your luck is not good with that, try fox urine. (www.predatorpeestore.com/how-to-get-rid-of-skunks-with-predatorpee.html).Today my daughter did locate the den. She was looking around under the parch and saw a hole and a young skunk poked it's nose out and my daughter screamed. I got all of the berry bushes out of the cat fence and the side. I read that skunks hate the smell of used cat liter so we spread it around the hole in an oval except for where they go out the lattice into the yard. I also read that skunks will leave a den that is flooded in light so I have set up a flood light that I'll shine on the hole starting after dark when I'd expect that the skunks will be out again. Then I'll also spread more used cat litter at the hole and around the area.
I hope that they relocate on their own.
Wish me luck!
If your luck is not good with that, try fox urine. (www.predatorpeestore.com/how-to-get-rid-of-skunks-with-predatorpee.html).Today my daughter did locate the den. She was looking around under the parch and saw a hole and a young skunk poked it's nose out and my daughter screamed. I got all of the berry bushes out of the cat fence and the side. I read that skunks hate the smell of used cat liter so we spread it around the hole in an oval except for where they go out the lattice into the yard. I also read that skunks will leave a den that is flooded in light so I have set up a flood light that I'll shine on the hole starting after dark when I'd expect that the skunks will be out again. Then I'll also spread more used cat litter at the hole and around the area.
I hope that they relocate on their own.
Wish me luck!
If your luck is not good with that, try fox urine. (www.predatorpeestore.com/how-to-get-rid-of-skunks-with-predatorpee.html).Today my daughter did locate the den. She was looking around under the parch and saw a hole and a young skunk poked it's nose out and my daughter screamed. I got all of the berry bushes out of the cat fence and the side. I read that skunks hate the smell of used cat liter so we spread it around the hole in an oval except for where they go out the lattice into the yard. I also read that skunks will leave a den that is flooded in light so I have set up a flood light that I'll shine on the hole starting after dark when I'd expect that the skunks will be out again. Then I'll also spread more used cat litter at the hole and around the area.
I hope that they relocate on their own.
Wish me luck!
You might also consider low level harassment like you've been doing for the next couple of weeks, and only step up the pressure in August. The young skunks might be too young for their mother to take them in search of a new den just yet, but you'll definitely want them out by mid-September.
Is there a place on your property where you wouldn't mind them living, like a deadfall in the woods? You might encourage them to consider it by leaving a few cat treats on it at night. Perhaps a small woodpile in front of it would make it more appealing.
Plan B is to spray all over the place with stinky ammonia ...
OK I have a problem. A Skung problem!
A while ago I posted this photo but it's not about the turkey this time. That cat fence and the lattice fencing on the right goes under the porch to the side of the house. It;s a cat fance to keep the cats in.. And on the other side of the porch is the deck. Under the porch is about 2 chords of firewood at least.
At dusk I was out tonight and heard the noise of small animals at the wood lattice fencing. I went out into the cat fence and checked under the porch and there was the skunk inside the fence. I could see recently disturbed dirt. They have dug under the wood lattice and can go in and out. I strongly fear that they have their den inside the fencing under the deck. And of course that's where the cats go and there is a cat flap door under the deck into the basement.
So I have blocked the cat flap of course. But what to do? Tomorrow during daylight I will investigate closer. The skunks should be asleep.
I just went out the porch door onto the deck and looked down into the yard and there was a young skunk in the middle of the yard inside the fence. When it saw me it went under the porch.
CRAP CRAP. I hope not but fear that they have their den inside the fence under the porch. So far I think that it's at least two young ones. I haven't seen any full gown ones around the fence.
CRAP CRAP.
Found this guy walking across the road:
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(While it technically is a road I was hiking on it as I don't have a car suitable to drive down it to the actual trail I was after.)
Vegas, beware, it's coming!!
Well the young skunks are using the entire wood piles to stay during the day. One was out in the cat fence tonight and when I shined a flashlight at it it just went under the wood pile. I have not seen any adults.
I think tomorrow or the next day i need to try something new. A radio on all night and I need to get some ammonia and a sprayer to spray as much under and on top of the wood pile as possible. The wood is just too much to move and not with skunks under it!
I'm still keeping the cats in at night and blocking the cat flap.
I guess I need to go to the hardware store for a new sprayer and ammonia.
Well the young skunks are using the entire wood piles to stay during the day. One was out in the cat fence tonight and when I shined a flashlight at it it just went under the wood pile. I have not seen any adults.
I think tomorrow or the next day i need to try something new. A radio on all night and I need to get some ammonia and a sprayer to spray as much under and on top of the wood pile as possible. The wood is just too much to move and not with skunks under it!
I'm still keeping the cats in at night and blocking the cat flap.
I guess I need to go to the hardware store for a new sprayer and ammonia.
How's your skunk problem?
We discourage determined wombats with 500g of ground black pepper. Might help.
Found this guy walking across the road:
View attachment 30421
(While it technically is a road I was hiking on it as I don't have a car suitable to drive down it to the actual trail I was after.)
Vegas, beware, it's coming!!
How big is it?
Found this guy walking across the road:
View attachment 30421
(While it technically is a road I was hiking on it as I don't have a car suitable to drive down it to the actual trail I was after.)
Vegas, beware, it's coming!!
How big is it?
I'd say the body was about 1" across.
I'd say the body was about 1" across.
You haven't seen a mad scientist with a striking resemblance to Leo G Carroll hanging around out there, have you?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula!
I don't know about bears, but deer definitely do shit in the woods:
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Mt. Charleston, South Loop Trail, close to 10,000' up.
I don't know about bears, but deer definitely do shit in the woods:
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Mt. Charleston, South Loop Trail, close to 10,000' up.
Deer poop on my lawn all the time. They are spherical around the size of marbles in a nice pile.
I don't know about bears, but deer definitely do shit in the woods:
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Mt. Charleston, South Loop Trail, close to 10,000' up.
Deer poop on my lawn all the time. They are spherical around the size of marbles in a nice pile.
Amateurs.
They're absolutely endemic here in SEQ, where they are also called 'Pee-Wees'.For some reason there are fewer birds than usual in my garden than in past years. I was therefore particularly happy to see a bird of a species I had not seen before. Curiously named Magpie-Lark (it is neither a magpie nor a lark) this male made himself comfortable in one of my cedars for a few minutes.
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The difference between a Plover and a Lapwing is that you can't knit yourself a nice Lapwing.Something very like that (but not identical) used to be called a Mudlark around here, but was recently renamed the Magpie Lark.
I wonder if genetic studies caused the rename?
The same happened with the Plover, now the Lapwing.
I wish they would leave bird names alone, it takes me long enough to learn them.
Curses on scientific accuracy.
Identical bird, actually, and it's been called the Magpie Lark since before the 1850s.Something very like that (but not identical) used to be called a Mudlark around here, but was recently renamed the Magpie Lark.
On my tiny phone screen, I thought that a few of them were on holidays in the Central Highlands of TAS, but it turns out to be the Lakes District.Identical bird, actually, and it's been called the Magpie Lark since before the 1850s.Something very like that (but not identical) used to be called a Mudlark around here, but was recently renamed the Magpie Lark.
The Mudlark/Magpie-Lark's habitat
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How big was that?Two years ago this huntsman spider was my housemate.
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I named her Lisa del Giocondo on account of her alluring smile.
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She roamed around in my study and kitchen for a few weeks, then disappeared. Not enough prey to jump at, I guess.