The birds are eating us out of house and home in their October efforts to bulk up for the winter. They empty the feeders at least twice a day. At any given time there can be 20+ birds active around the 3 feeders. Big blue jays of various types tend to push everyone around, and the aspens are changing raiment from green to yellow. Something unfamiliar is a wonderful rusty red now. Last weekend we had to reinforce the back stretch of fence to keep Steve McQueen from escaping yet again. It was accomplished thus: we dug a trench along the base of the fence, about 5 inches deep. Then we unrolled a 2-ft. wide length of chicken wire the whole stretch of the fence, 1/2 of the wire upright along the fencing and 1/2 flat on dirt at a right angle to the fence. One of us staple-gunned the chicken wire to the fence posts, and the other hammered the chicken wire onto the dirt with large spikey things. Then we shoveled the dirt back over the chicken wire. Very very sore hands after all this. And of course McQueen found a spot on the other side of the yard to start digging a new tunnel in. It's time to call in the professionals and just line the rest of the fence with railroad ties and call it a day. Thank goodness our Steve has no motorcycle.
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