Monday night I was back up Quartville road, to check on the food left Saturday. All of it was gone, which did not surprise me. There are many possible responsible parties--birds, deer, loose dogs, foxes, and also cats, if any still alive there. I took a trap and set it but wanted to be home by 10:00 p.m. I saw nothing there, in the time I sat and waited, mostly reading, in my car. It was raining again.
I left out more food, took up the trap and went back to Thistle Creek to send a couple texts. Thistle Creek is five miles back towards the nearest town. You can get cell service there. Around here people come to know where there is and isn't cell service.
While I was sitting in my car there I noticed a large hole in a dirt bank. A good ten inches across, obviously well used. It was very dark by now. To the right of the hole, maybe six feet away, in same dirt, was a smaller hole and it was there I saw movement out of the corner of my eye. I sat quietly with the car lights on, so I could see, waiting. More movement. It was mice! Lots of them, coming and going in swift dashes from that hole.
I heard a yap behind me then. I never could find its source but it sounded like a fox. There was also a lone deer wandering around, as if bored.
I made a stop in Lebanon to pick up a trap some folks had for weeks. I was home by a bit after 10:00 p.m. with chores still left to do.
Today the rain is supposed to end for a few days I think.
I'd like to think that any cats there have been taken in by nice folks.
ReplyDeleteWhere she is has been cut off since mid December by a slide until last week, so sadly that is not something that could have happened. And she's wild.
DeleteIt sounds like the foxes have plenty to eat with all the mice around. I hope the rainless materialize as promised.
ReplyDeleteI could swear the first movement I saw was something larger. So then I wondered if the mice were vacating that hole for another reason--something after them in there, like a weasel.
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