All You Can Eat Buffet

The Dismal Land and Livestock Buffet is very popular with just about everyone.  Our current specials feature safflower and corn.  These delicacies are in high demand from mice to deer and anything in-between and they love Take-Out or is someone delivering it? 
The proof is in the pictures...

 As you can see, it is in every room and in every corner.

 This is what he shook out of the toes of his insulated waders, both the picture above and the one below.

 They eat the soft seed inside and leave behind the hull. 

The safflower was stacked in the old kitchen room and was getting devoured at a good rate.   Boyd decided he would move it to the room with where the cats live and let them earn their keep.  Didn't make a bit of difference.  He finally gave up and bought trash cans ($130 ! ) to store the seed. 

This will do the trick for saving the safflower at least.
Now,  where can we buy a can big enough to cover the corn?

 Here's Boyd heading through the corn, it doesn't seem like there are too many birds.

 Yeah, you'd be wrong!

 And what the birds don't eat, the deer, raccoon and who knows what else do.

The only good news is that many neighbors have spotted a coyote in the corn field.  Let's hope he is keeping out some of the critters.   My dogs seemed edgy tonight, so maybe the coyote was close by.

And, lastly, my excuse for not posting much lately.  I am tired of gloomy skies.  This photo almost looks black and white, but it is in full color.  It's just that black and white and gray is the current extent of color around here.