Thievery

Isn’t that a handsome patch of sweet corn?


















It’s all tasseled-out and the ears are forming.





However, someone swiped an ear and gnawed on another one.

I put out a cage trap and baited it with some chicken fat thinking that the culprit is likely a raccoon.

Checking the trap in the morning it was triggered and the chicken fat gone.

Whatever it was it was small enough to squeeze through the mesh cage.

I think the thirteen-lined ground squirrels are back.