For the third time in a week, I found this distinctively colored scat left prominently in the new year...the first time on a small cement slab, and the second and third times on the asphalt where we just took down the last of the old carport.
After looking in Animal Tracks of Northern California, I think I have identified this scat as possum poop. I think he has been feasting along with an assortment of birds on the last of the bumper crop of apples.
I am not at all sure why the poop is left in such exposed places. The dogs really avoid it, and I collected it when I am doing Poop Patrol.
The gardens are all pretty dormant, and most of my work right now consists of small pruning jobs, poop patrol, and keeping the bird feeders filled so the finches, towhees, scrub jays, acorn woodpeckers and flickers will continue to amuse and amaze me.
It is great to be able to look out the kitchen window and only see the yard and wildlife. Yesterday from a distance, the deer looked back until Koko spotted them.
Monday, January 11, 2010
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