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Groundhog Activity

2020-04-26

Home Ec

Wildlife

The groundhog responsible for trimming the lawn greenery in our area has discovered the long-disused driveway salt barrel:

Groundhog - in salt barrel — Groundhog – in salt barrel

There’s always another appointment on the calendar, though:

Groundhog - trotting on driveway — Groundhog – trotting on driveway

A busy critter with no time to waste!

Comments

2 responses to “Groundhog Activity”

2020-04-26

Mick King

A year ago in Oct, right about the time I wanted to turn on the furnace, there was a horrible scratching banging thumping noise from the furnace. I rounded up a live trap, built a panel to take up the rest of the filter door opening, and put it in place. Yep, a groundhog had climbed in the make up air intake, fell 6′ onto the filter, destroyed that, went into the fan compartment and bit the thermostat wires off. I moved it a mile east, to a park that runs along a creek. and put some steel mesh over that make up air thingy
1. 2020-04-26
  
  Ed
  
  We’ve verified they can climb chain link fence just fine, albeit with considerable motivation. They generally prefer tunneling, which explains the array of concrete blocks buried around most of the garden perimeter.