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Old 08-19-2009, 08:54 AM   #7130
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Originally Posted by Sweetpea View Post
No squirrels here, only mice. And they don't eat our apples and pears and grapes and blackberries and strawberries and raspberries. And the plum will be planted this year.

Oh, and we have cats that eat the mice.
We have fruit bats and possums for the fruit. We had what we think were native rats, but the big carpet python I previously showed photos of (and which had suspicious bulges along its length) seems to have got them (though something's hanging around under the pool gazebo, eating palm fruit and crapping from the gazebo's rafters.

The scrub turkeys are the worst if they decide on your yard, and they're everywhere around here (I could go out the front now and probably find two in the garden), and not the brightest animals in the world (nothing dissuades them). They'll walk backwards, scratching your entire yard's mulch (and on their way scratch up any plant) from your place to someone else's, even across the road, if they get it in mind to build a nesting mound, which are about 1.5m high and 4m across. Mostly though, they just scratch it up looking for food, which isn't so bad if you don't mind going out every other day to sweep and put the mulch back. They're not well-loved, though being natives they are immune to (legal) persecution of any sort.

Cheers,
Marc
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