My mom was equally intrigued by what's pooping in my back yard and decided to write a note to the people at the Texas Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. Posing as me, she wrote a note simply stating that something was defecating in my back yard and it's dog sized poo and she (I) was wondering what it could be. The director, Ms Roslyn Even, promptly wrote me back to inform me that it's raccoon poo. Apparently healthy raccoons have some really healthy poo. Good to know! Our suspicions were confirmed when I noticed yesterday morning that a raccoon(s) had drug a 5lb bag of bird seed about 10 feet across my deck, ripped it open, and consumed part of its contents.
Since Ms Even was so helpful in the raccoon debacle, I decided to ask about the things in my trees. I described it as a chirping (although it's not really a chirping, per se, more like a squeaking) and said they're in my trees and it sounds like bats. She responds: "Bats don't live in trees and they don't chirp." I'm quite sure she thinks I'm a complete idiot and I'm partly inclined to write her back and ask her where this 'tude came from. She also suggested that I try to look for the chirpers with binoculars. Maybe she thinks I have night vision goggles? Anyway, in her brief and terse response she also said that tree frogs make a peculiar sound. So maybe it's tree frogs. Anyone have any night vision goggles I can borrow??
I just checked out the site:
http://www.twrc-houston.org/staff.html Ms Even looks like Cruella DeVille. She's probably not rehabilitating the animals, she's breeding them to make coats! Mom, next time email the sweet looking woman from the Education department! :)
