Damn diggers have moved in thick. Raisin' all sorts of hell... have been pushing their way in through loose spots in teh wire of my birds pens, eating quail eggs, eating quail food...

Then... chewed a hole through a soft mesh cage to get more food...subsequently releasing about 35 near adult birds...

Then chewed a bunch of holes through the large aviary here at work to get food...THEN, the sumbitche$ killed and carted off all the week old baby pheasants one of my hens had jsut hatched and was actually caring for herself. I've never had one actually sit on a clutch through incubation, hatch, and then care for it's young, and this one was doing great, until last night! (It's a 4' wall of concrete around the base of the circular, so I know they didn't just run off.)

I hate these damn vermin! And they're totally on to me, you never get more than a split second glance before they are headed down a borrow, or into the blackberries...

I've got poison blocks out, and a few live catch traps out...gun is by the door...