Our backyard squirrels come to drink from the stream or veggie filter
several times a day. I've seen him drink from the pond itself once but its a
3" vertical drop to the water so its a little more challenging. The bunnies
come to drink but they are in the bad books for preying on plants so they
get chased off.

The hummingbirds, finches, robins etc come to drink and bathe in the stream
as well.

A few weeks ago a Cooper's hawk stood in the stream for a while drinking
from the waterfall, biggest bird I've seen in my backyard.

-- Mark (http://community.webshots.com/user/mswinkel)

"Mike Patterson" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 12:03:03 GMT, "Steve and Lisa"
wrote:

When we moved here last fall the extreme amount of squirrel activity
interested Monty the Golden, but he's since moved on to chasing bunnies,
doesn't bother with the squirrels at all. (We have black, red and grey
squirrels as well as pine squirrels who have a crabby attitude!) I'm sure
once Monty realizes he cannot catch the bunnies either, he'll say stuff
it
I'll stick to my tennis balls. Does anyone else have squirrels drink
from
their ponds?

I was reading a book while sitting on the large rock on the edge of
the pond last week with my legs in the water when two young squirrels
came up within 3 feet of me and drank. That was fun.

I also have 4 doves that come in around 7:00 every evening and drink.
They're a bit more skittish than the squirrels, but they're fun to
watch as they hop around the rocks looking for just the right place to
drink.


btw......I'll take the Ms Bullfrog, one of mine moved on and the other
died
last Friday. So we haven't any frogs at all now.


Lisa

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