{"id":52583,"date":"2026-06-14T19:08:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T19:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=52583"},"modified":"2026-06-14T19:08:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T19:08:22","slug":"yard-work-ecology-digging-in-the-dirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/yard-work-ecology-digging-in-the-dirt\/","title":{"rendered":"Yard work, ecology: digging in the dirt&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about yard work and developments that can occur: the tutor mentions evidence of a visit.<\/h2>\n<p>\nWhere we live, one doesn&#8217;t typically see as many small animals as big ones. Deer, for instance, one often sees in public. Black bears are common to find in the woods.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the Maritimes, it seems to have been somewhat the opposite: one might see a fox, a skunk, or a weasel, but bears or deer, not so often &#8211; at least, where I lived.<\/p>\n<p>\nOut in the yard, I find deer droppings sometimes. A few days back, however, I found evidence of a visit from a different creature. One of the mounds I&#8217;d built to plant pumpkins in was completely leveled, and there had been digging in another area as well.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the places that were dug up I know there to be a lot of worms. Yet, the digging wasn&#8217;t by birds; I know what their digging looks like. Rather, at these sites, earth had been moved, as if it had been shoveled. I don&#8217;t think a small animal could accomplish it.<\/p>\n<p>\nMy wife immediately suggested a bear had done it, which makes sense. My reading suggests, possibly, a raccoon as well. Whatever it was didn&#8217;t dig any of the lawn, just in the garden.<\/p>\n<p>\nInteresting, eh?<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/northshorebears.com\/bears\/\">northshorebears.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantharmony.org\/blogfeed\/raccoons-digging-up-plants-in-garden\">plantharmony.org<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about yard work and developments that can occur: the tutor mentions evidence of a visit. Where we live, one doesn&#8217;t typically see as many small animals as big ones. Deer, for instance, one often sees in public. Black bears &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/yard-work-ecology-digging-in-the-dirt\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yard work, ecology: digging in the dirt&#8230;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1218],"tags":[4289,4290],"class_list":["post-52583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yard-work","tag-black-bear","tag-raccoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52585,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52583\/revisions\/52585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}