Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 3,601 Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Munching my rhododendrons..... http://i1174.photobucket.com/albums/r620/Franco6666/WILDLIFE%202015/DSCN0379_zpso44qnimk.jpg http://i1174.photobucket.com/albums/r620/Franco6666/WILDLIFE%202015/DSCN0378_zpsjxrk9xqd.jpg http://i1174.photobucket.com/albums/r620/Franco6666/WILDLIFE%202015/DSCN0381_zpsvl762tvk.jpg LL Link to post Share on other sites
G. I. Tarpicker, SASS #998 3 Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Pretty. Never get tired of seeing them. -- GIT Link to post Share on other sites
Allie Mo, SASS No. 25217 7,579 Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Link to post Share on other sites
Bugs Bonney SASS # 10171 0 Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 So, I bit them. Link to post Share on other sites
Utah Bob #35998 17,965 Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 They love our Hollyhocks. Link to post Share on other sites
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 3,796 Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Found five of their cousins in the orchard last week. They browsed over to the ivy and had some nice snacking. These were black tails, not white tails. All five were does Link to post Share on other sites
Bugs Bonney SASS # 10171 0 Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat Ivy, a deer will eat ivy too, wouldn't ewe Link to post Share on other sites
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 3,796 Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Goats eat ivy too. Link to post Share on other sites
Calamity Kris 2,387 Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Uno sent me a pic he took this morning of some ladies having berries in the neighbor's yard. If I had a way to share it here, I would. I never tire of them either. Link to post Share on other sites
Utah Bob #35998 17,965 Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Uno sent me a pic he took this morning of some ladies having berries in the neighbor's yard. If I had a way to share it here, I would. I never tire of them either. If you e-mail it to me, I can post it here. Link to post Share on other sites
Shawnee McGrutt 6 Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 It has been a hard winter for them here in the Noreast. They have several cedars on my place up to about eight feet high. I have been feeding them. Link to post Share on other sites
Four-Eyed Buck,SASS #14795 1,150 Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 We have quite a few around here,SIL saw some out back last week chewing on pine needles. We have a vacant area on the corner of one of the streets that was the original well area that has an apple tree in it. After a fresh snow, you can see loads of tracks around it as they are digging in the snow looking for drops. As of this morning, theres still some apples hanging in the top of it Link to post Share on other sites
Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 3,601 Posted March 7, 2015 Author Share Posted March 7, 2015 I like them too, but they have reached nuisance level in over-population. The State biologist says we should have no more than 7 deer per square mile; we have almost 30. I see groups as large as 17 in my yard. Thousands of dollars in ornamental plantings stripped to the stalk. Put up a bunch of netting this past fall to try to protect the rhodies. We'll see. We no longer have a modern rifle season in MA, so unless you are a bow hunter or a primitive weapon shooter, you're not taking any deer. That, mixed with the general movement away from farm and country lifestyles, produces overpopulation. Now we have runaway deer tick populations carrying Lyme disease, and innumerable deer/car collisions. LL Link to post Share on other sites
Muleshoe Bill SASS #67022 446 Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 sausage on the hoof Link to post Share on other sites
Blastmaster 0 Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 I like them too, but they have reached nuisance level in over-population. The State biologist says we should have no more than 7 deer per square mile; we have almost 30. I see groups as large as 17 in my yard. Thousands of dollars in ornamental plantings stripped to the stalk. Put up a bunch of netting this past fall to try to protect the rhodies. We'll see. We no longer have a modern rifle season in MA, so unless you are a bow hunter or a primitive weapon shooter, you're not taking any deer. That, mixed with the general movement away from farm and country lifestyles, produces overpopulation. Now we have runaway deer tick populations carrying Lyme disease, and innumerable deer/car collisions. LL Montana & Wyoming can ship over some Yellowstone wolves for you to use for population control. Link to post Share on other sites
Bugs Bonney SASS # 10171 0 Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Montana & Wyoming can ship over some Yellowstone wolves for you to use for population control. Which population did you want those wolves to control? Link to post Share on other sites
Shawnee McGrutt 6 Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 I see more deer just south of Boston at my daughter's house, then I do at mine here in the woods in Maine. Link to post Share on other sites
Blastmaster 0 Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 Which population did you want those wolves to control? Sounds like LL needs the deer and coyotes thinned out. Link to post Share on other sites
Rye Miles #13621 7,739 Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 sausage on the hoof They look mighty tasty don't they?? Link to post Share on other sites
Russ T. Sites 130 Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 Deer aren't stupid they fled the country and move to the suburbs leaving me hungry Link to post Share on other sites
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