Some of our pets, wild ones at least

[Carls_jeep]

I put out cracked corn for the wild pets in the area and they do like to feast on it. There are two does with twins and sometimes all six will be feeding at the same time. We have seen a four or six point buck once this fall. Our winter predictions for here is colder than normal with less snow. I knew that buying the Jeep would help keep the snow away.

I can step outside and talk to them and they just look at me and keep on feeding but since the hunting season has started they are more jumpy now.

[macrisel]

Nice pic!  You're going to have to put out more corn and fatten up that doe for deer season

[Carls_jeep]

Been working on that. Had some Deer steaks Sunday a friend gave us and that wet my appetite for more.

[calvinhunt]

Carl,
I'm intrigued with how the eyes and ears of both fawns are focused on you while the doe is focused on eating!

[Carls_jeep]

It's kind of odd isn't it, but we are in the great room watching TV when they come up. I don't know if they can see us through the window or not but they all look at the window from time to time as they eat. I am sure they can hear us and the TV and when I go outside they just stand there as I talk to them.

It's kind of amusing because sometimes when they look at us I will say, stop watching and start eating and they do it. I know they don't know what I said but it's funny anyway when they do it. If I see the deer out in the field and talk to them they stand and watch me as I move around but if I stop talking they leave. I am starting to think that they think I don't see them when I am talking but when I just move around they get nervous and may leave.

The rabbits act much the same way but the birds always fly away when I come out of the house or start moving around.

EDIT: they are only about 30 feet outside our window where they are feeding.

[mud pie]

Forget the deer, I like the view !!  

I look out my back window and I have about 125' of yard.....then my 6' fence.  I look over the fence and I see my neighbors farm.  Pretty cool in the morning when I'm sitting on the patio drinking coffee, listening to the cows moo, horses whinny, the goats bleat, the roosters sqwaking their noisy butts off.

Then, just when I stretch and yawn, the wind changes.  Get a lung full of the smells attached to them animals.  Breaks the mood....  

Granted, I like having the farm behind me, it's all the things attached to it that come in my yard I don't like. The snakes (poisonous and non) field mice, possums, bugs and spiders so freaky looking that it looks like God just slapped some of his best work together on a Friday night and made a new bug.

Many a night, some creepy crawly will be on a window and I'll go, "Whadehell is THAT ??"

We have deer and bobcat, but with the area growing so fast, I hardly see them anymore....


But we got them freaky bugs.....