Stalking Wild Life

guido

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Hello,

Country boy sneaking up on a couple of doe deer! Naturally he is barefoot,


Guido.
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Thoughts when I see that picture -- Deer are already used to seeing humans around, not skittish, and there's not much underbrush left there -- makes me think the deer population in that area may be higher than nature will allow. We had a pretty high population a few years back, then came a hard winter. Snow pack stayed here in Eastern WV for about a month -- the only thing they could find to munch on were shrubs and seedlings above the snow line. Did a number on the Christmas Tree Farm, as well as shrubs around homes. A number didn't make it through the winter, and another neighbor found a small one that had died, just outside his basement door. Nature making a balance, I guess.
 
A few years ago, whitetails got so thick in our area of eastern Nebraska you could hardly walk out of the house without tripping over one. 'Way to heavily populated.

Then a fever spread amongst them and caused them to crave water. A buddy of mine found a pile of 22 dead ones by a creek on his farm at one time. Wasn't harmful to humans, although it wasn't advised to eat an infected one. The population is now back to a sensible level.

Just nature's way of staying in charge.
 
also happened in West Virginia 1995. I counted 25 dead deer that could be seen from trails. Many more out of sight. The whole 250 acre holler smelled of rotten deer. They died in yards, ponds & roads. All over the central part of the State. I never found out exactly what caused it.
 
Blue tongue. Cattle get it as well. I lost both of my bulls within a week of each other about five years ago maybe. Their tongue gets so swollen and bruised looking it appears blue.
 
This wasn't blue tongue in eastern Nebraska, it was something else. There were outbreaks of blue tongue in the western part of the state about the same time.
 
All of the western stATES look like that under the conifer canopy. No grass grows there ever. No sunlight there. Not much rain.
 

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