cbs 2's jennifer mclogan reports from syosset. >> oh, my goodness. i started screaming to try to scare him. >>reporter: this summer is not quite the same in the cook's syosset back yard, now inundated with groundhogs, snack on garden vegetables and destroying landscaping. >> they're about this big, and i don't know how many there are because they all look the same. >>reporter: groundhogs are holes, popping up on the cook's side of the fencing. >> i see them coming out from behind the hostas, walking along my pool. this used to be squash, but it's gone. this was my pole string beans and you see i only have one little string bean plant that's left. >>reporter: filling up now because groundhogs hibernate early and may soon is be getting ready to slum ber under the cook's patio where their grandchildren play. how do you feel about the groundhog itself? >> it's they're cute. >> he would not be deterred. he then made another hole here. so i got another brick and put it there. i decided that maybe i should try to catch them. i don't know if this cage is suf