Posted on 02/24/2008 7:24:09 AM PST by CrimsonDynamo
It's been quite a while but I finally caught sight of the deer who have been eating the fruit from my trees.
The little buggers have cleaned off my Peach tree a few times.
Still it is nice to see them.
Anyone else have any critter sightings?
This is unusual around here as I live in a fairly populated area so close to Massachusetts that I could spit into it, and I often do.
Give them some corn and they will say out of your trees.
Moose occasionally drift into Newton and Lawrence Mass. Deer wander all the Boston suburbs, although they tend to be “people shy”. Whenever the snow cover gets deep, especially towards the end of winter, hunger drives them closer to inhabited dwellings.
She’s healthy-looking, too.
They are so common where I’m from, Mississippi, I’d probably see 20 a day on my commute to work. We don’t get to see them in the snow, though. Pretty.
At our previous abode, our pear trees and my garden peas were candy to those critters. At our current address it’s a major chore to zig zag through them on the way to work. Frankly, you can keep them.
Now, let’s talk about wild boars who dig up yards.
I feed feral cats on my porch. I live near a park and greenbelt. Periodically a white faced possum will come to the porch to partake of the cat food. Birds and grackles also join in and recently I was a hawk standing on my neighbors lawn.
You're Snoopy?
What kind of fruit trees do you have that produce in the winter?
I live in Michigan. We see deer as big edible rats.
Just chased 8 or 10 of them buggers from my yard this morning. They were having my new landscape plants for breakfast. The snow covers most of the upper elevations so they are coming down for food. Going to fire up the SUV, we need more global warming.
I had a bobcat a few yards from my office window last Fall and I’ve been told that there are mountain lions and bears in the area where I work.
I’ve also seen eagles, hawks, coyotes, wolves, skunks, squirrels, rabbits and deer out there as well.
I live in a suburb of KCMO (I say suburb but Overland Park is actually the third largest city in Kansas and our neighbor Olathe is moving up there too. I rarely go into KCMO. Anyway, we live one block from a greenway and frequently see deer, sometimes as many as three or five at a time, wandering through the neighborhood. We also occasionally see fox. We have hawks, and the usual pests such as squirrels, possum, racoons, woodchucks, ground squirrels, etc. Mostly they stay under control because we have two dogs and a cat. The deer cleaned out my husband’s giant zinias one year. He put in motion sensing lights but we think that they liked them so he started calling them courtesy dining lights. Other than that, they don’t do any damage and they’re fun to watch.
Saw a carload of critters from New Jersey riding down my road last week but they were moving too fast and I couldn't draw a bead on em................
Then there's the dozens of bird species, as we live in a narural migration path. Along with the songbirds come these guys--
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That's what I was wondering too.
Who told?
That was my first question as well.
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