This year we haven't seen any great accumulation of snow. Sometimes it has taken a few hours,a couple of days to a week to disappear, but our tractor which usually has been called to duty already to get that stuff out of the way hasn't been used for that cause. At least not yet...
Posted on February 5th, 2009
The deer have been populating open areas to feed. They are hungry and continue to search for food at all hours of the day now.
Timber floors still being covered with layers of snow, takes the deer out where the sun has opened ground in the thawing spells of last weekend.
These deer are only a sampling of what I saw and what has been seen.
Notice all the young ones...that number continues to grow because of the capability of 6 month old does to conceive and become mothers. I continue to see a very small deer,which I assume was born at the end of last summer, running with the herd.
Too much attention sent them off to look just over the fence for somewhere else to enjoy a nibble...
Returning to February 7th, 2012
Our deer population isn't as numerous as it was back in 2009 and before. Extreme winters,human hunting quotas and coyotes have been a factor in my opinion to a decline that seemed to become evident from my perspective last year. Maybe others see a different slant on the same picture.
