OT: The Downside to Living Downtown

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raghorn

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I took these pictures about 30 minutes ago. These three guys were in the garden about ten feet from the back wall of my house. At this moment they are bedded in the grass, chewing their cuds and acting like they own the place.

They will likely spend all of whitetail season here mocking me, while I go out of town in search of their cousins. Hopefully they will reward our hospitality by dropping their antlers in the yard next January. Enjoy!
 

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Cool pics.

We're in the xurbs and have a permanent population of does and young'uns. The bucks are far harder to see. Hunting in area.
 
can see the post office and fire station from my house, along with city hall...have a 50yd shooting range in my back yard, and mucho game around the place, turkey, hog, deer, etc....of course, my town only has 234 folk and four town ordnances, all of which deal with alcohol or gambling....
 
Raghorn, you are a rich man to have such things in your life.

~ Bamboo ~
 
There's something wrong with my monitor: I don't see the crosshairs on ANY of those pictures.

Beautiful, BTW.
 
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I lived where the red "X" is. I used to go for a morning jog across the street into the "forested area". This is an old pic (1993) - most of it has just been "let go" since - all undergrowth, etc. I would always see deer walking around - this is in suburban Maryland, just 20 minutes outside Washington, DC!

One morning, I counted 17 deer in my 15 minute jog.

This is what would be running through my head on those cold mornings farther north where we would have to sit for hours just to see a doe and/or fawn during hunting season....:rolleyes:
 
Same situation here in north Jersey. If we went for hunting in a serious way, we could feed everybody in the state on venison, and the herds would still flourish.

This town is a pretty wealthy suburb, and I've seen does with fawns on the lawn and ballfield behind the town hall, in the middle of the day. All over the trails and by the lakes.

If we added the @$#% Canada geese to the hunt, we'd have to export meat, too much for us to eat.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
If we added the @$#% Canada geese to the hunt, we'd have to export meat, too much for us to eat.
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There used to be a lot of Canadian Geese at our zoo here in Tulsa. I was reading something one day about birds and it was mentioned that a Canadian Goose goes poop on an average of every eight minutes!!!! :eek:
People still sneak food to them in spite of the "Do not feed the waterfowl" signs up everywhere out there.
The nice white wide sidewalks used to be stained green from all the goose poop! :rolleyes: :mad: :(
There aren't as many waterfowl of any kind out there now as most people listen and don't feed them.

The Canadian Geese were also aggressive bastards about food. I've seen them take boxes of popcorn from little kids, damn big bulies anyway.:mad: ;)
 
No deer in my yard, but there's a big old pheasant that enjoys waking me up at 0500 most mornings. (When Oscar the Attack Cat isn't waking me up at 0430, that is.) He'll wind up in my crock pot one of these days if he isn't careful.

The Camp, though...plenty of does there and they're very nearly tame. Even gunfire doesn't bother them anymore.

I used to jog the roads out there until I found out about the cougar; the one time it stalked me closed the deal. Now I walk, and only if there's someone else with me. It hasn't started any trouble yet (nor have the bear and the coyotes) and I'm told that technically I'm at the top of the food chain, but better safe than sorry, right?
 
Neat to have wildlife where you live. All we ever see is the occasional skunk, possum, raccoon roadkill.

Ice
 
Just scream, "They're comin' right at us!" before you fire;) That should cover all your bases.
Seriously, i miss the wildlife. I live in an area that up until about a year ago was probably full of deer. Wide open spaces and lots of old woods to hide in. I think the construction and bulldozers scared them out. When I look look out the back of my house I see my neighbors privacy fence. I'm so close that i could probably tell whether or not he likes his eggs sunny side up or over easy. The side of my house with a window looks straight into my neighbor's window. If i look out my front door i see a messy suburban street still under construction. I see kids playing the the cul de sac that will always be safe, but will never know the wonder of growing up with songs of trees in the summer breeze, or the wild birds as their morning alarm clocks, or actually WANTING to put down the TV remote to go off for an adventure. All they'll know is the 7a.m. garage door musical, or the familar trash can being scraped to the curb, or the beeping of skid steer as it backs up to push more earth to build more houses.
One day. One day i'll go back.

Jake
 
Steely?

The deer may be back before you leave.

Some cities recently passed regs to allow bow and arrow hunting of whitetail deer to "ensure the health of the herd." Iowa somewhere, I think.

I know New York, maybe Long Island, has an on-going controversy about eliminating the deer herd which is ruining the gardens and landscaping folks put in.

I spent the first 43 years of my life in Chicago. Places I used to assassinate ducks in are now major shopping malls...Woodridge? not sure anymore.

A younger friend recently paid off his truck and a credit deal he had gotten himself into. He had disposable income he was not accustomed to having. I recommended he put some money down on land, far away, that he could either move to, or sell as an investment down the road.

He just ordered a Toyota ?Scion?....$15,000. :-( Little box thing.

His choice, always.

But they aren't making more land.



Be well and safe.
 
Beautiful pix, Raghorn. Thanks.

We don't have deer but rather dolphins in our backyard.

Sometimes individuals, pairs, large groups. Lil' baby ones too.

Unafraid, they come pretty close... can hear the "pwuphhhh!" when they take breaths, sounds like blowing through a snorkel.

Best are their sonar-coordinated hunts... Like wolves, they corral schools of mullet and force them against the seawall corner. The mullet leap out of the water all at once like a sheet being lifted. The dolphins sometimes come out of the water themselves, tail walking like Flipper.

*munch*thrash*gulp*

They cruise away slowly, their sleek wet plastic-looking forms gently breaking the surface.


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If you can look around and see that your life is good, consider giving something back. Get a birdfeeder. It's good karma to feed the hungry.
 
sounds horrible, steely, i refuse to live anywhere where i can't go for a stroll with the doggies & see the deer & hares, pheasants, cranes, ducks, as well as the foxes, weasels, ferrets and other critters that we find just across the road....ah, well - at least y'all back home will soon have the free roamin' lions and tigers, oryx, elephant and camels they're plannin' on releasing out yonder. (we have a few leopard and panthers roamin round the moors here, but they keep a purdy low profile)
 
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