Mystery Solved

For the last week or so, I've noticed bite marks on the three pumpkins I have sitting out on my front steps. I was flummoxed. I couldn't imagine what was biting my pumpkins. For a while, I thought it might have been the deer that roam the neighborhood, those voracious landscape-eating machines of destruction that get particularly active during the fall. The pumpkin bites seemed to be appearing only during the night when those varmints are awake.

Then Saturday I saw a whole bunch of crows descend on my lawn and start walking around. You could tell they were up to no-good. They were just hanging out, casing the joint. A few were even sitting on my front porch roof looking down the pumpkins. I thought maybe crows were pecking at the pumpkins. But I had never heard of that.

Finally, yesterday, I discovered the criminal. I caught him red-handed, so to speak. I should have known all along. His incriminating picture appears after the jump.

I hope nothing is biting your pumpkins this Halloween.
K-