Comments on: august is abuzz with visitations (and not just humanoid) https://awaytogarden.com/august-is-abuzz-with-visitations-and-not-just-humanoid/ 'horticultural how-to and woo-woo' with margaret roach, head gardener Sat, 12 Dec 2020 14:38:36 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jane https://awaytogarden.com/august-is-abuzz-with-visitations-and-not-just-humanoid/comment-page-2/#comment-1048537 Sun, 16 Jul 2017 17:21:42 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=34956#comment-1048537 Could Raccoons Eat Snakes and Mussels?
I have never forgotten your frog friends and when I started a new garden this year the first thing I did was put a pond in hoping I could attract frogs. The tangles of blackberries,horsetail and scrubby trees could wait- I wanted frogs.
We have frogs and toads in the area and for quite a few nights in early spring I was wide awake at 2 am excitedly trying to identify the types I could hear with a British Columbia government site with frog calls like the excellent Cornell ornithology site you have mentioned. With luck, there were 100 plus tadpoles in the pond later in Spring. The yard has stood neglected for decades so holds no charm, but a steady flow of neighbours have come to see these tadpoles metamorphosize.
Who’s visiting today? A small 3′ x 3′ area with flat stones adjacent to the pond has become a pond-side cafe of sorts so each morning I go out to find what the previous evening’s dinner special was- I have found a half-eaten snake, mussel shells, pumpkin stems with the emerging pumpkins eaten, and half-eaten water hyacinths. I am assuming it is a raccoon eating because I know they love the fleshy part of water hyacinths, but I didn’t know they would eat snakes and mussels.
Another delightful surprise- the very Hummingbird Clearwing Moth you have mentioned was in the clover lawn yesterday and there are a few yellow and black butterflies in a Big Leaf Maple that I need to identify (and figure out what they are doing in a tree.)
I hope that you know that your lovely website has given me and many other gardeners the ideas for these joyful additions to our gardens. (I’ll read about protecting snakes at your website next)

]]> By: Carol Cameron https://awaytogarden.com/august-is-abuzz-with-visitations-and-not-just-humanoid/comment-page-2/#comment-1030682 Sun, 15 Nov 2015 12:28:12 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=34956#comment-1030682 Lovely post of butterflies and other garden visitors….viewed w/my morning coffee!

]]> By: margaret https://awaytogarden.com/august-is-abuzz-with-visitations-and-not-just-humanoid/comment-page-2/#comment-1027910 Sun, 30 Aug 2015 13:38:08 +0000 https://awaytogarden.com/?p=34956#comment-1027910 In reply to Melony Sword.

Lucky you, Melony. A wonderful season there!

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