Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]We also get deer here regularly, they walk through at any hour of the day. They do stay away from dogs though, so they do not get too close to the house... most of the time. ;-) But they do indeed eat just about anything green, and colorful flowers also. Gene -------------- Original message from Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com>: -------------- > Nathan suggests introducing wolves to control the deer. Wild wolves have > been migrating into New York from Canada but they haven't reached the > Hudson > Valley yet. When they come we can have Friday Flowers again. Locals have > been calling deer 150 pound rats. They will eat everything green. We do > have > coyotes but they are too small to chase a fully grown deer. They will take > down small fauns but only if Mama is not present. I have a video of a > coyote > devouring a faun about a few yards from our kitchen window. Coyotes do kill > and eat cats and small dogs and if you want your tiny pet to live long and > prosper it is well to keep it indoors. We live in a heavily wooded area > near > the Hudson, fairly remote from nearby towns. Our small lawn has a southern > exposure and is warmed by the afternoon sun. A while back I came across a > sleeping fox. Foxes generally flee from humans but this one just blinked > and > when back to sleep. I suspect that he gorged himself on fermented wild > raspberries and was sleeping off a good drunk. A few hours later I noticed > him staggering off to his den. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Sleeping+Fox+1.JPG.html > > Here is a closeup. I couldn't have been more than a couple of feet from his > nose. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Sleeping+Fox+2.JPG.html > > Oh, yes, an informal portrait of Mrs. Bambi taken from the shadow side. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Mrs_+Bambi.JPG.html > > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information