Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/10/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You are lucky to have this wildlife nearby. I mean it. I much prefer deer to flowers anyway. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ YNWA On Oct 23, 2013, at 12:57 AM, lrzeitlin at aol.com wrote: > Enough about guns and just one last comment about white tailed deer. > > In 2001 we visited our son-in-law, then deputy ambassador to Nepal. On a > trek through the Himalayas my wife asked our guide why the rhododendrons > looked like trees instead of large bushes. "It's simple," explained our > guide. "Grazing animals eat the lower branches and leave only the tops to > grow." > > When we bought our house in the Hudson Valley 50 years ago, it was > surrounded by bush like rhododendrons. We had to trim many of the branches > to get light in the windows. Then the deer moved in. Rhododendron leaves > are one of their favorite delicacies. They ate all of the lower foliage, > then stood on their hind legs to consume whatever they could reach higher > up. Now we too have rhododendron trees just like in Nepal. > > This guy and his family are the culprits. This six point buck has a harem > of five females with fawns that eat everything but concrete patio blocks. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Buck+in+yard.jpg.html > > Black bears live in the wooded area nearby. Did I mention that we live > right across the Hudson from Bear Mountain State Park? The bears might > keep Bambi and his ilk in check. I snapped the pic with a P&S a winter ago > then beat a hasty retreat. If the bears are successful we might have to > import some of Jayanand's tigers to keep the bears in check. And so on. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Bears+in+next+door+woodlot.jpg.html > > There is no pretense of quality in either of these photos. They are just > record shots. > > For this of you morbidly interested in what unrestrained weapons > availability can do in a country other than the USA see: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepalese_royal_massacre > It happened when we were in Nepal. > > Larry Z > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >