Re: Other animals in the garden

Gunnar and Tony,

This is a great idea...also, a light with a motion detector might scare away
the nocturnal guests by blinking on before they start to forage.

Speaking of unwelcome wildlife, we once had armadillos in our backyard when
we lived in Houston, Texas.  The dogs dug giant craters trying to get at
them...  those scars were still there a decade later when I went to sell the
house last fall.

Karen V. Athens

Tony and Moira Ryan wrote:

>
> What I have in mind is to obtain a "motion sensor", such as is used for
> household security lights, and hook this up to a flash camera,
> preferably one with auto wind-on (or the digital equivalent). If this
> set-up could then be arranged to cover the likely "victims" and left
> switched on overnight, there is a reasonable chance you would then get a
> photo of the intruder actually at work ("The rat with the flour on it's
> nose" as Moira always quotes!). Of course, you might just get a film's
> worth of stray passing cats etc, or - depending on the circumstances and
> location of your garden, you might have the camera stolen!
>
> Tony
> --
> Tony & Moira Ryan,
> Wainuiomata, North Island, NZ.     Pictures of our garden at:-
> http://mywebpages.comcast.net/cherie1/Garden/TonyandMoira/index.htm
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