Wildlife

In central New York we have houses surrounded by trees, trees, and more trees. We have tidy lawns that end in tall flowers, vines and assorted other ground covers that probably include poison ivy, sumac, whatever. So, it's little surprise when nature finds its way inside. Yesterday it was a little nature in my window fan -- a bat, dead thank goodness. A bat, not cut by a fan blade, but stiff and intact with its mouth open as if it gave out some horrifying scream right before it expired. How'd I get it out? I took the back off the fan and dumped the bat in the backyard, nowhere near where the last bat went, the one that was right by Missy's food dish. that was two years ago. I guess I can handle one bat every two years.

The thing is, nature has a way of letting us know we can't just expect to take over and not have some feedback from those critters whose places we've taken. In NJ it's opossums. They get hit by cars, of course, but they still keep coming back, and bears now, and raccoons, skunks and deer. In central NY it's turkeys, deer, skunks, foxes, raccoons, bats (obviously): have I left anything off the list?

So what you got where you live? Any bears looking in the window? Any deer eating your tomatoes? Any bats in your belfry?