Set a $200 A24 rat trap up yesterday, along with 8 cheese-baited $2 rat traps. None of them triggered. I had forgotten to put the SD card back in the game trail camera, so didn't capture anything.

Garden looked good while watering, and also I noticed high winds were waving the tomato plants in front of the solar-powered owl, so it was hooting every five seconds or so. If it did that all night, that might have been the trick.

Would a scarecrow work for birds? I saw reference to a "water scarecrow" recently and searched for one on Amazon and read up on it, neat device; uses 3 cups of water each time so it's not wasteful either.

Thinking of putting up a scarecrow on a swivel, so the wind will turn it. I'll watch for damage over the next couple days. Really cold this morning, might not have a lot of growing time left!