Sunday, September 3, 2017

August 2017, The only good vole is a dead vole!

  And the winner for "most destructive animal" (in my garden) goes out to!... drum roll please........the one!, the only!...VOLE!!!!

Whatever the little rodents didn't eat last year, they sure have eaten, chewed on, or just plain cut down (without reason) this year.  I'm sure they have a purpose, but one I could live without.  


 Honey Bees love Sacred Datura.


Not sure of an id for this Bird  








I feel horrible about this.  A gopher snake went through the vole cage, but after eating the vole it no longer fit through.  Also, to make matter worse vole then ran up to it and ate it's face off.  Voles don't just eat plants, they also eat small animals the catch.   

You can see the vole hair fluff out as the carrion beetles do their job as garbage personal.  


Yucca faxoniana x pallida.  With vole cage.

Yucca gloriosa

Agave utahensis x neomexicana

My Yucca elata that froze last winter has finally come back.  Better late than never.  






A few humming birds still hanging around late August.



Turkey Vultures flying over head one morning.





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