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carrying walnuts from trees in our yard.
When a food source is found they will make many trips back and forth as they cache the food for the winter. If your backyard has a nut tree you will surely be visited by a bushy-tail.
As animals that once avoided humans become more comfortable around us, they undergo a kind of cultural change. An example of this would be Peregrine falcons, once close to extinction but are now adapting to skyscrapers and bridges in cities, feeding on the thriving urban pigeon population.
More surprising is the astonishing comeback of “urbanized” coyotes.
These shy loners are moving into our communities where they are not only changing their natural diet to incorporate domestic cats but also starting to form hunting packs similar to wolves.
Throughout the Virginia Piedmont and surrounding areas, bear populations are also growing and moving closer to humankind, attracted by unlimited and easy access to food supplies.
A successful wildlife habitat provides a variation within each of four areas. They are food, cover, water, and space. Acreage, such as farmland, woodlots and our Virginia backyards provide at least two of these elements, which are food and water.
It then becomes important that wildlife have access to cover and
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