You will have to take my word for it that there is a little red squirrel in that dark patch foraging. You will notice that above the patch is a bird feeder and therefore that the patch is made uip of a season's worth of sunflower seed shells that keeps growing as the snow melts.
Last year after the thaw there was an enormous amount of grass and unwanted growth beneath the feeder from all of the dropped birdseed. Subsequently I chose to go with only sunflower seeds this winter because I will not care if sunflowers choose to take root in my garden, yes, even yellow sunflowers in my white Moon Garden will be allowed to stay!
Not that I expect to see many, the sunflowers appear to be an absolute smash hit with all the local critters.
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Hm, "You will have to take my word for it " - love that. Never occurred to me that bird seed might take root.
ReplyDeleteOh my, did I ever have to weed under the feeder last year! I hope that will change this spring, but only time will tell.
DeleteI too have that collection. I started putting pine bark mulch under the feeders which is clean up after the winter..but I do have some sunflowers popping up around. Nice to see you survived this long winter Derek....Michelle
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping in Michelle. I have not had many nature notes posts lately because there are only so many photos of squirrels at feeders I can share, LOL. Now that spring is arriving and life is sprouting up all over you can expect more participation from me again.
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