I just had to share these pics!

[tigerlily]

This one is of a HUGE bug that came out of no where and took out a wasp. I'm still getting used to all the big bugs here, and this one is just something out of a sci fi movie.



And another pic of the red shoulder hawk that came visiting yesterday morning. I LOVE them....



And here's one of a little fellow that was taking a dip in our pool. I could stop myself from rescuing the little thing. It's no bigger than my thumb!



And here it is after a good meal, and a brief rest..... I kept kicking myself for letting the thing live but it was so cute and I'm too much of a wuss....

[JLC]

Very cool pictures!!


I'm with you, I don't think I could kill a wild mouse if it were outside and minding its own business. (In my house is a different matter entirely!) And better to have rescued it and set it free than to find a dead mouse in the pool skimmer. (I hated that part of pool care!) Cute little booger!!

[tigerlily]

Thanks Judy! I'm glad it's not just me. I also rescue all the wolf spiders in my pool as well. I figure they eat all the yucky bugs. The only kill zone in my house is my bedroom....

[GirDance]

Haha, I'm a sucker for rescuing them too.... Although I'd have let the mouse go very far away from the pool... Something had to attract him over there in the first place as chlorine does not smell like food! I'd be too worried about him either getting to what did smell like food, or finding the pool again!

[tigerlily]

Nah... I just let him go out in the back corner of our yard. It's just been SOO dry here that all the critters are attracted to the water. There is no food out there. Ever since our first pool, animals just seem to be attracted to the pool. (I hate having to do dead animal patrol before the kids come down) I even had a squirrel swimming around one time. It had seemed stuck in the skimmer, but I managed to persuade it to climb a stick and head for higher ground.

[Freakie_frog]

Christie; Welcome to the South

[Ginevive]

Cool hawks! That insect is interesting too; I would have no idea what it was, either.
Wild mice are fair game in my neck of the woods though. Once you find their poop in your kitchen cabinets, in your dishes.. once you find they've chewed holes in your garbage bags full of used rat bedding and spread it all over the mudroom; they lose their cuteness factor!

[tigerlily]

I agree with ya Jen. Fortunately, I haven't had any problems with them in my house! If I did, I'd probably make someone else come out and kill them for me.

[Alice]

I love the pic of the hawk! Thanks Christie.