Moles are not generally herbivores. They eat insects and insect larva (grubs), beetles, and earthworms. They burrow deep down in the ground, make their nest there, but come up close to the surface to forage for bugs and worms, esp. after a rain shower, as the insects and worms will be on the move at that time and the soil is softer. Moles can damage plants and grass by all those maizes of tunneling, but they are not the ones eating your roses or veggies. Gopher, rats, mice, voles, rabbits and rats have large front teeth, made for gnawing and chewing plants and seeds and nuts. They love tender sweet roots of young seedlings (and the tops too). Roses are of the same family as apples and strawberries and these they find very yummy. My rabbit loves me to give him fresh snippets of the tender tips of rose bushes. He loves them. Rabbits will eat your blueberries to the ground. I lost all my blueberry bushes to cottontails. (Bad Peter, Bad Benjamin!) They will also chew on young trees. Now if I ever get blueberries again, I will enclose them with cages until they grow to some size. Below, I have added a link to a website all about Moles and Shrews, including a number of ghastly traps and methods used to attempt the get rid of them. ----------------------------------------------- Planting daffodils around your tulips is not just for aesthetic purposes. Tulips are edible, even for humans, but Daffodils are poisonous. Dutch bulb growers learned that by planting Daffodils in with their Tulips or rows of Daffies flanking them, helped deter rodents and other animals. I planted 2 Peruvian Daffodils (Spider Lilies) a few days ago. I planted them by my day lilies to ward off rodents. Thought the frilly creamy white spidery flowers would look terrific next to the colorful day lilies. Nothing on the package indicated that it was 'tender'. I looked them up on the Internet last night, and turns out they are VERY tender. Although we may think of Peru as mostly a cold mountainous region, this daffodil comes from the tropical forests in the hot, moist valleys far below. Well, Bugger me! I gotta go dig 'em up now, and sink them in pots out in the greenhouse before they freeze their little round bottoms off! ~SweetAnnie4u Here is a link that might be useful: Moles & Shrews

Two different birds. The first is a female and the second a male. Could be either Hairy or Downy Woodpecker. It's hard to see the exact field marks in the photo due to low belly angle. If the bird is about 6 to 6.5 inches it's a Downy and if it's larger, about 9.5 inches it's a Downey. Most likely it is a Hairy. The holes you describe in the tree, if they encircle the tree in neat rows, are probably from a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, not either of these two. CT

Well, on that particular day I was testing out my brand new Fuji S5200 while my dad and neice were fishing nearby. At the end of the day, I turned my back for a second and darned if that girl didn't drop my camera bag, camera and all, right into the bucket of fish and stinky, gooey fish water and say "Look, the fishes can take pitchers of themselves". Talk about what will bring ya to tears. Anyways, the camera was toast, so I got the same new one a few days later.

Not much lost in quality when viewing on a Web browser. The filesize in this day and age of broadband majority is not a big issue either, but anything over 200KB will try a dial-up's patience. The "height" HTML attribute will work, but the "width" attribute is more intuitive, since this will eliminate the need to scroll horizontally. If you're copy&pasting photobucket-supplied code, just insert width="###" after the URL of the image within the image tag. Examples: width="800" width="600" width="400" width="200"