04-25-2011, 03:42 PM
MacDoxy wrote:
you might want to encircle it with something like chickenwire or whatever
given the urban wildlife i've seen in my yard, i'm more concerned with providing some sort of overhead protection. Blue Jays, hawks, and owls abound. i've watched a Blue Jay being attacked by a horde of birds as it clutched one of that flock; BJ won that one. a few summers ago in the middle of the night either a hawk or an owl tried to snatch a german shepherd puppy from my neighbor's back yard. the mom won that one. might have helped that i jumped out of bed and went over to the yard with a flashlight to see what the commotion was about. (neighbor's weren't home.) a week or so later i saw the claw wounds on the puppy.