So, my new neighbor - Mr. Woodchuck - showed back up tonight.

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First saw him 2 weeks ago on the back lawn. Chowing down. Now he's hanging on the slope in front of the backdeck. Can't smell me because I'm 15 ft above him. Eyesight is marginal, but sense of smell is keen. Still, he seems OK with me on the back deck, moving around and playing my music.

But...just had a hawk come in from the wrong attack vector, lucky for Mr. Woodchuck. Saw it, and into the pucker-brush he went. Had the hawk come in on a w->e vector, he could have feasted on a fat groundhog tonight.

Such is life.

[elleng]

1. Think I saw 'mine' recently too!

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3. It ain't a great life being a Woodchuck (or Groundhog, can't tell which)....

Just when life looks like Easy Street, there is danger on your door.

[elleng]

4. How much wood would a wood chuck chuck, IF

a wood chuck could chuck wood???

(Will LOOK, now!)

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6. Must be a Groundhog then, Ellen.

I've never seen him eating anything but grass and my lettuce. He's only trimming the lettuce, not killing the plant itself. Good farmer!

Please don't send your Ospreys up to Maine to kill my Groundhog Buddy.....

[elleng]

8. Sure won't send them FURTHER north!

(NEXT, they'll head to south/central America! Can't BELIEVE it!)

[MuseRider]

9. With a stop in NE Kansas

to eat at my big pond!

I always look forward to them.

[elleng]

10. NO! MY osprey are NOT going to KANSAS!

(Sorry, but not keen on tornadoes!!!)

From here, southern MD, 'straight' south.

(Not banded, so we can only 'surmise.')

[EYESORE 9001]

12. I think they're the same critter

AKA ‘whistle pigs,’ referring to a noise they can make.

[TheBlackAdder]

2. Your Mr. Woodchuck might not be too different than mine.

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Mine was hanging around the back deck, then burrowed a hole by the foundation and under the crawl space, started to munch on the framing of the interior walls and through the electrical wiring, shorting out power to half of the room. It took forever to chase him out of there after repeated assaults on the burrow. He had a second home under my neighbor's shed and I placed a motion alarm by the back deck to alert me when he/she comes back.

I was sitting the the TV room with the slider door watching television. I start to hear crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch. I'm like where the F is that coming from. Thenit stops. The next day same thing. Then, crunch, crunch, crunch, poof. The outlets for the television and side wall go out.

Effing thing did about a grand in damage.

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5. Sorry to hear....

Mine would have to chew thru 8" of concrete. Ain't happening. He's living in a swail grass / underground stream area about 30 yards from the house. When you are by yourself 90+% of the time, you notice these things.

[TheBlackAdder]

7. Well, he dug under the block foundation and popped up on the inside of the dirt crawlspace.

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The crawlspace is just dirt, without concrete flooring, unlike the rest of the basement. And once he dug that hole, all other kinds of woodland creatures used that tunnel to enter the crawlspace and into the basement proper. While the crawlspace is mostly closed off from the rest of the basement, there's enough opening for voles, squirrels and rabbits to enter.

This guy had their four season home under the deck and summer cottage under the shed and go between the two. The under deck one was used in winter, even before entering the crawlspace. It took a few years before they dug under the foundation. I guess they liked the slightly warmer and sheltered environment.

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11. I have a few red squirrels who hang out in my feeders. They do not like each other! I've had them

literally run over my legs chasing each other. Had my roof reroofed this year, but somewhere these little bastards have found an opening and are nesting in my 7 layer roof....I hear them in my ceiling at night.....

[BigmanPigman]

13. I want a photo!

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14. 50.00 USD.

I will give you the best Woodchuck full frontal. Series;y.

[3Hotdogs]

15. Our yard is owned by 3 or 4 Mockingbirds. We pay the taxes but they own the yard.

Any other bird that tries to enter the yard and/or surrounding property, gets promptly escorted out.

Now they are feasting on the last of the blueberries that my daughter planted two years ago. We were allowed to have a pall full. They are cleaning up on the rest.

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16. 4 crows arrive at the crack of dawn.

They eat the stuff on the ground. But they make a lot of noise.....