Catscratch House and Habitat build

[Catscratch]

Ya see that... the black thing? The black thing at my new target?

 

[Catscratch]

That's a cow. Stupid ass cow licking and pushing on my target!

 

[Catscratch]

Where there's one cow where it shouldn't be means there will soon be more. Stupid things. Surprised they aren't standing on the dock.

THIS! This is one of the reasons they taste so good. Bacon is great for the same reason. There's a certain level of satisfaction in killing and eating something who's stupidity is so problematic.

 

[Turkey Creek]

They also seem to be drawn like a magnet to ground blinds. I have yet to ever put one up in a pasture and not immediately had them feel like it should be their new favorite place to hang out. Though I thought maybe they would be like a confidence decoy... LOL. Until one spooks because you move in the blind and then they all run for a few seconds.

 

[Catscratch]

They also seem to be drawn like a magnet to ground blinds. I have yet to ever put one up in a pasture and not immediately had them feel like it should be their new favorite place to hang out. Though I thought maybe they would be like a confidence decoy... LOL. Until one spooks because you move in the blind and then they all run for a few seconds.

Lol, I'm not surprised! Probably spooked off a solid 200 typical.

 

[SD51555]

Wait.

Are your pumpkins vining up your sunflower stalks?

And did you say that barn swallows are eating your yard wasps?

 

[SD51555]

I suspect I have wasps in my wood chip pile. If that's the case, I may need to spread some bear bait on that pile to get them to eat them up.

Then I'll have to go rake up my wood chip pile again. But it would be funny to have the bears eat them.

 

[Catscratch]

I suspect I have wasps in my wood chip pile. If that's the case, I may need to spread some bear bait on that pile to get them to eat them up.

Then I'll have to go rake up my wood chip pile again. But it would be funny to have the bears eat them.

Lol, can you put a camera up to video your bear wasp ordeal? I'd love to see that footage.

They're vining up the milo stalks. Sunflowers are not very thick in there. I probably didn't relay that well in the other post.

I don't think they eat them. But, they harass them relentlessly. Wasps and wood bees have been absent since the swallows moved in. Both were a problem before.

 

[SD51555]

Lol, can you put a camera up to video your bear wasp ordeal? I'd love to see that footage.

They're vining up the milo stalks. Sunflowers are not very thick in there. I probably didn't relay that well in the other post.

I don't think they eat them. But, they harass them relentlessly. Wasps and wood bees have been absent since the swallows moved in. Both were a problem before.

I always learn something from you. That stuff is fascinating.

I've got to move cameras this weekend. If I have wasps in the woodchip pile, I'll move that bucket camera rig over there and set it up. I should probably set it to video for something like that.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

I suspect I have wasps in my wood chip pile. If that's the case, I may need to spread some bear bait on that pile to get them to eat them up.

Then I'll have to go rake up my wood chip pile again. But it would be funny to have the bears eat them.

Funny. I found several piles of bear crap a couple years ago that were 95% yellow jackets. Bear must have dug up a nest of them. I can't imagine how they went down.

 

[Catscratch]

I always learn something from you. That stuff is fascinating.

I've got to move cameras this weekend. If I have wasps in the woodchip pile, I'll move that bucket camera rig over there and set it up. I should probably set it to video for something like that.

For yrs I fought them. Tore down nests as they built them on the house. Didn't want bird crap all over the place. Then spend the summer spray wasps and wood bees.

Then covid happened and I had to do a lot of zoom meetings. Would drive my truck out into the pasture and park near the herd. It was a happy place. I'd put the phone on my dash and pretended to pay attention (I really did pay attention, but it was tough). Every morning a huge flock of swallows came up from a bridge a mile away and swarmed the herd. Would eat flies right off their backs, and anything that they kicked up out of the grass. This was a good thing! So I quit fighting them on the house. Been wasp and wood bee free ever since (except for in the shed).

 

[Turkey Creek]

If they weren't such a crap factory I would let them be. They always seem to nest in the worst places for keeping the mess down. I have plenty of buildings where I would let them nest, but they always seem to choose the front porch.

 

[buckdeer1]

They nest above my camera by door so I just roll up small bit of hail screen and put up there and they don't nest there.Maybe put a small shlf where you want them to nest.