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Post by tom 🕊 on Jun 12, 2019 20:31:53 GMT -5
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Post by binnylou on Jun 12, 2019 20:36:10 GMT -5
tom 🕊, I remember a young woman, pregnant with #4...maybe #5 saying that she could just lick the hood of the truck. I’ve had two children and don’t recall having that craving. First child was ice cream...second child was fresh fruit. No dirt.
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Post by tom 🕊 on Jun 12, 2019 20:55:02 GMT -5
binnylou, the woman I knew got her clay from a bank where the road was cut through a hill, so it was clean clay. The woman was African-American. We worked alone in a dark barn during the dark, rainy days of autumn. I took off tobacco for her, and she graded it and tied it into bundles. She nibbled her clay cookies while working. I was offered some and should have tried it for the sake of experience.
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Post by binnylou on Jun 13, 2019 21:02:38 GMT -5
More visitors mid day...a doe and her twin fawns. This was new for us. We haven’t seen twins this spring, even though they are common. Must be that good Iowa GMO corn.
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Post by binnylou on Jun 14, 2019 16:03:23 GMT -5
Hubby had to go to town this morning and when he returned, he reported that there was a deer dead on the edge of the road, less than 1/4 mile away. I do hope this isn’t the mother of the twin fawns. As aggravated as I get about deer browsing, I hate to think of theses fawns being orphaned.
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Post by SpringRain🕊️ on Jun 14, 2019 19:09:18 GMT -5
I think it must be so exciting to see deer so close to one's home, especially in the back yard. After Mom died, my father used to drive up to the area where he grew up and visit a woman he knew from childhood. She lived on a multiple acre farm where she and her husband had farmed.
One time when I accompanied him on a visit, we saw several deer grazing in her yard. They seemed so peaceful, idly nibbling here and there. It was such a thrill, and such a change from looking out my windows in a more urbanized area.
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Post by Mumsey on Jun 15, 2019 4:06:49 GMT -5
Must be that good Iowa GMO corn. Which is why I'm not a fan of venison. There are theories that wildlife prefers non-GMO over GMO. But when hungry, like people they will eat what's available.
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Post by binnylou on Jun 17, 2019 22:46:01 GMT -5
Hubby spotted a doe and one fawn early this morning. I miss a lot by sleeping in.
Then, I spooked a single deer down by the garden late this afternoon.
As for the deer that was found dead a few days ago, something/somebody had drug it into the ditch. I can’t believe anybody did that because it was quite smelly when I went to look at it. I shudder to think of what kind of critter moved it. While the carcass was out of sight, the grass indicating the direction of travel was all crushed and the ditch is wet and soggy.
And I do believe the vulture population has temporarily increased.
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Post by binnylou on Jun 18, 2019 10:34:30 GMT -5
And this morning, I look out the kitchen window and I see a doe, lying down at the edge of the mowed area of our yard. She was snuggled up against the tall unmowed area of our property, just lying there chewing her cud. She stayed for about half hour and then something in the tall grass got her attention and she bounded away.
I’m wondering just how many deer frequent our yard.
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Post by Mumsey on Jun 19, 2019 4:43:42 GMT -5
binnylou, Vultures have returned to our neighborhood again this year. I don't know what the attraction is, other than wooded areas and creek about a mile away. And the trees in our part of town are probably some of the oldest/tallest ones. They must like to nest in high places!
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Post by deckman22 on Jun 20, 2019 13:45:44 GMT -5
I saw the first fawn of the season in the backyard this morning, still very tiny and very cute! Mom jumped the fence going into the ranch behind me without giving a second thought to her baby. Baby hasn't learned where the holes are and bounced off the fence the first couple of tries.
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Post by binnylou on Oct 16, 2019 21:43:58 GMT -5
While at the kitchen sink this afternoon, I see a young deer, probably from this years crop, coming from the thicket where we have a mineral block. Right behind her is another, probably “mom”. I watched at the window for a while and they are moving closer to the house. I went out on the deck, and very slowly, worked my way to the south railing. The larger one was about 20 feet from the deck before she noticed me. I started talking to her, she listened, I talked some more. She was fine until the smaller one bolted, and they both headed back toward the direction they had come from.
Corn harvesters are in the area and the deer are spooked and losing their cover. When I went to the garden late afternoon, I spotted one exiting the area east of the garden. Hubby saw three on the yard this afternoon. We’d best put cages around our new trees.
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Post by deckman22 on Oct 23, 2019 20:40:31 GMT -5
My neighbor & I were chatting in my driveway this evening and he says "look there". A nubbing buck closing in on my new cat, he's the first born of this year's local fawn population and has nubs where his antlers will be hence the name. He walks over within 6-8' from us and gets nose to nose with the cat, kodak moment for sure. I know cats are curious but seems deer are too.
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Post by James on Nov 7, 2019 12:11:46 GMT -5
I put a radio out in the corn patch tuned to the local talk station. Seems to keep the raccoons out of the corn. Might work for deer too?
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Post by binnylou on Nov 18, 2019 22:00:45 GMT -5
It was almost quittin’ time this afternoon. I was going to do a couple of laps around the property to charge the battery on my golf cart...I get almost to the west end of our drive and see two deer right across the road. They see me, but have no fear of the golf cart. Hubby and I are in agreement that the deer are getting too comfortable and need to hear a little gunfire now and then. I called him on the cell and told him to fire a couple of rounds. He does, heads come up, but the deer don’t go anywhere. I think I heard one ask the other “Did you fart?” Then here comes another one. I decided I’d just yell and shoo them away. Yelling and shooing worked. They took off, somewhere picked up #4, and probably hid behind the grain storage “tunnels”.
They will be back.
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