Gruesome Garden Mystery: The Deer Fence Let a Dead One In

So yesterday I put up the deer fence around the garden. I didn’t get around to pegging the bottom of the netting to the soil, but did bravely transplant my broccoli. This morning when I went to check on my baby brassicas, I was very surprised to see the leg and hoof of a deer [...]

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Another morning wildlife guest

Like the fox last week, this raccoon came up the road from Oak Island, saw the houses up ahead and decided the woods behind our house were a better bet. In six years of living here, it’s the first raccoon I’ve seen. A neighbour told me he saw a black bear just down the road [...]

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A foxy visitor

We get a lot of wildlife where we live, but this was our first sighting of a fox. It came down the road, crossed our front yard and disappeared into the woods. I was lucky to get a photo at all. My husband saw it later the same morning, going the other way. Share and [...]

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