We kept my daughter’s cat for a while and the chipmunks made themselves scarce. After she took the cat back, the chipmunks returned, and started sampling the tomatoes - a bite from each one! And undermining the concrete steps.
So we’ve acquired a pair of feral kittens, who are taming nicely, and after growing up inside this winter, and being spayed, and getting all their shots, can be set loose on the chipmunks next summer.
The vet says to give them bright collars, not bells, to alert the birds. Not that I feel much charity when the catbirds and wrens are in my berry bushes. Still I’d rather that the Cooper’s hawks come back to make them hide away, instead of my cats preying on them.
Has anyone grown honeyberry aka haskap aka edible honeysuckle? How do you like them? I put in four small plants in spring but their roots didn’t seem to want to grow out into the soil.
That’s interesting. We have some feral cats in the neighborhood, but the squirrels are way out in front of them. They tend to hang in our yard because we have a lot of nut trees. I do see the mama cat dragging them back to were ever she is hiding out.
Now I have read that Wrens prefer bugs to berries, and are territorial and will chase off other birds. So I’m surprised if they are eating a lot of berries.