For a little while now we’ve been musing over what was making some divots and spots around our foundation and other spots near the house. At the beginning of lawnmower season, our groundskeepers sprayed around things and areas that they couldn’t get the lawnmowers or didn’t want to weed eat.
We have a little patch of grass/weeds next to our back steps. It’s a very small rectangle and pretty awkward to cut. Our groundskeeper sprayed the area and now it is a patch of dirt. We don’t mind and the girls like playing in it.
But these started appearing….
I first thought some areas near the foundation were made by rats. Then I saw a prairie dog unusually close to the house and thought maybe they had made their way down to the house.
Nope.
It’s these three little cuties.
We are usually inside making supper, out walking or riding in the tractors when they come around. Matt just happened to see them one evening and they scurried up the tree as fast as they could go.
That black blob at the top left corner of the tree/picture are the three little raccoons.
We also have an influx of other babies around here:
Turkeys
(taken through the kitchen window screen)
Deer
(the little ones are just now losing their spots)
There’s about five bucks that hang out together.
Photo: KJ Angwin
Photo: KJ Angwin
And the elk are back with their little ones.
They make their way down to the lower 160 pasture every evening now around 7:30pm. We aren’t too excited to see them there. They eat about 60% of what a cow does. It’s one of our best grass hay pastures.
These four babies: raccoons, turkeys, deer and the elk have been fun to watch.
