Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Shall We Introduce Ourselves?, 1 by ldy_gardenermd

ldy_gardenermd wrote:
I am slowly teaching my dh to love the wildlife, slowly! We have had issues with the pileated woodpeckers and occasionally a downy woodpecker or two going after the carpenter bee larva. The trouble with them going after it is that we live in a log home and so the bees bore, the woodpeckers drill and we end up with a hole the size of a mans fist! Dh's father wanted to shoot the woodpeckers, I told him I would report him if he did! We had the house cob gritted last year (its a cleaning process that is far more friendly then chemical stripping/cleaning) and while we have carpenter bees they aren't nearly as bad! So dh this year has enjoyed watching the woodpeckers on the logs in the woods rather than the house. Now if I could just get him over his fear of snakes lol, he squeals like a school girl and runs at the site of a snake, no matter what size!

Annie I saw your post about the squirrels, don't remember which forum either lol. The amount of hostility from some people towards wildlife just amazes me. I can't imagine killing anything (unless it is eating me) I mean I try to let wasps and other critters out of the house rather then squish them. The land just keeps going away with all the building and I don't know where people think the wildlife is going to go. I welcome them all here, I love to watch the birds and bugs, I can sit forever when I catch an orb weaver making a new web! I sometimes think that the people that are hurting the animals should suffer the same fate they bestowed upon what they hurt! People might think twice then!

This was my garage buddy! This friendly critter had been in my garage for YEARS, he would come out whenever I was working on the deck to sun himself. Well I loved having him around as he kept the mice out of the cars and the birdseed and he ate the big old spiders that we have in there as well. I was out potting up stuff and my friend here was sunning, well dh made me catch and release my friend. He had a fit when he saw the snake just sitting there! You would have thought it was a cobra getting ready to eat the dogs! I sure do miss my pal!