Spring Fever?????

[Alice in Wonderland]

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Nancy I envy you ,You must live in the bush too???I love to have wildlife around me ,even so we live in the Bush ,the Deer will not come and feed ,we tried everything, they probably have enough to eat elsewhere, Racoons is another matter , we feed them when we moved here ,until one day I had not put out food they literally ate the screen door, so that was it. Now we just feed the little stuff chipmunks etc.
Alice

[Kenny_S]

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Well, first time I have mowed in 37 degree weather. but the lawn looks nice for tomorrow, even if the Grandkids don't get to hunt for Easter eggs outdoors. Might be in mid fifties tomorrow.

[Kenny_S]

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Yup, the government takes the fun out of watching animals.
Nancy, beautiful pictures.

I always take a camera when I am hunting. Yup, I am one of those bad bad "PETA" memebers, "People Eating Tasty Animals".

[Nancy-G]

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Thor We don't have chickens and ~sigh~ we don't have skunks or raccoons anymore. We stopped feeding them because we learned from MO Conservation that they were solitary animals and drawing them together in "clumps" like we did was detrimental and spread disease.
(And, boy, was it it getting expensive) But I miss those little rascals.

We still feed a lot of deer, turkeys and birds.

[Thor]

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Gee Nancy,
You could rent out rooms in your house just to experience that. The photos are wonderful, and it looks like such a peaceful kingdom you have there.

I've had my own skunk experience that would never allow me to get that close to another one.
My own family banished me and the dog for 2 days. We had to sleep down by the dock and ride home in the very back of the stationwagon with the back window down from our little vacation in the woods. .

You must not have chickens.
Thor

[Nancy-G]

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We had just one red fox that came in early each evening ~ One grey came in too late to photograph

[Eddy-Smiles]

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We were in a Save-A-Lot in Tennessee one day last year and a guy came out carrying a box of fat back and bones. I asked him what in the world he was going to do with it. Seemed like a lot of pea soup and baked beans to me. He said that he feeds a pack of foxes that come to his back porch every night around dusk. I always thought that they were a solitary animal but apparently when food is invovled the rules change.

[Nancy-G]

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Awwwwwwhhh you just have to know HOW to treat 'em and know when they mean business.

[Eddy-Smiles]

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Nancy...

My wife concurs with Bob. She says that she'll stick with her squirrels! I also remember the last time our dog tangled with one of those black and white critters..... it took three large bottles of Hunts Ketchup to get her where we could even stand to be around her.

[Bob_in_TN]

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That's neat Nancy, but I'll stick with deer. My Doberman met one of your friends a couple of years ago and it took us days of cleaning her up, just enough that we could stand to be around her.

[Nancy-G]

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I feed deer - lots of deer. I feed lots of everything.
Eddy, here's a good one to show your wife.

[Eddy-Smiles]

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I debated as whether to show the photos of the deer to my wife. She'd go bananas! She loves to feed the wildlife. We've got 7 oak trees on our small lot here in Florida and we've probably got more squirrels per branch than anywhere else in the state. Sometimes I think that the majority of my retirement goes out the door in peanuts. I can only imagine what it would be like if we lived in your neck of the woods and we had deer showing up at the back door. Ouch!

[Kenny_S]

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All, Always a pretty sight to see wildlife in yards. We have Deer that run through our little town and some times get caught in fences. Sad as they do not understand fencing. Anyways, Nice pictures but ya can keep the snow.

[Bob_in_TN]

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Al, I didn't know you were a farmer too. That's quite a herd you have there. We also have woods along the back edge of our property, most deer we have had at one time was 8. They didn't bother us too much until they pruned my wife's azalea bushes. If wife isn't happy, nobody is happy!

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Well, Feb, we don't really feed the deer.......not allowed here, either, but we live right on the edge of the woods, and they come in and raid our bird feeder (in the background)...they also scarf up any spillage that happens along the path to the feeder. I'll see if I can find a picture of one of the "raiders of last park". OK, I found it. no matter how much bird feed we put out when the deer come in, one of the bigger ones gets up and snorkles a lot of it down, and then proceeds to either blow or shift her head around to knock the feed to the ground. The birds do get fed, because I keep restocking the "deer feeding" station.


Al