Maybe we could exchange deer. There was also a tiny oak that sprang up
next to the maples right after they took root. She apparently doesn't
like oak since she didn't touch it. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 6/15/2012 9:45 PM, Rick Beckrich wrote:
> That's sad, Chuck. I had the same thing happen to a white oak we had been
> nurturing.
>
> I put one of our home built tomato cages - a cylinder 0f 4" X 4" wire
> fencing about 14"
>
> in diameter and 48" tall - around it, and two years later its growing big
> and tall.
>
> There's no hope for the tulips they chomp though.
>
> Only after a snow did we relize how close to the hous they come.. and how
> many come!
>
> Rick
>
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Chuck Norcutt<
> chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> If I'd have had a gun yesterday I'd have blasted the doe that was in our
>> back yard. There is a small herd of about a dozen deer that are
>> frequently outside our fence in back in the neighbor's yard.
>>
>> Yesterday morning at about 5am I noted a single doe on our side of the
>> fence calmly chomping on some wild greenery growing along the fence. It
>> was only later in the day that I discovered she had also neatly lopped
>> off the tops of two maple seedlings in the middle of the yard that I
>> have been nursing along since they first sprouted in spring of 2011.
>> They just happened to sprout where my wife and I had determined we
>> needed a large shade tree. I built a little wall of rocks to surround
>> them and protect them from the lawn mower. I've watered and fertilized
>> them and plucked the grass from around them to give them every chance to
>> grow. They were very slow to start but a few weeks ago they started
>> producing some very nice (and apparently tasty) leaves. Yesterday...
>> chomp, chomp... both had all their leaves bitten off at about 8" above
>> ground level. Arggh!
>>
>> The larger one still has two tiny leaf buds each less than the size of a
>> BB. I still have hope it will survive.
>>
>> Venison spiedies anyone?
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiedie>
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>
>> On 6/15/2012 7:39 PM, Rick Beckrich wrote:
>>> Last summer's twins all grown up. Taken this afternoon.
>>>
>>>
>> http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=183275&ppuser=20714
>>>
>>> http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=183274
>>>
>>> Their mom has at least one new one that I caught a glimpse of this
>> morning... That's what got to thinking
>>>
>>> I should get the big "gun" set up... Glad I did.
>>>
>>> Hopefully, we'll get some spotted fawn shots soon.
>>>
>>> Rick
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