This was the same day. Deer came later in the evening. Well, with corn they come every day.
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You are brave by inviting the deer to your orchard. Lol.
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Unless heās luring them there
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with the turkeys ā¦
I donāt think deer eat turkeys
The deer are there anyway. I was luring them earlier. I harvested two and picked up one roadkill. I could still kill does till February. Normally Jan 1 but they extended the antlerless to Feb. You have to have any unused tag or buy an antlerless tag till those run out, and they never seem to run out. This means you can shoot bucks with antlers less than 3" and does and fawns. My neighbor took 12 one year. There is no such thing as keeping the deer away from my orchard. Even if I killed them all, they would still find this area and fill it in. Turkeys are unpredictable. They rome large areas and donāt stay for more than a few days. Then they show up weeks later. The deer population has gone down. I used to get over 30 in my yard. Most of my neighbors have moved and the new ones all hunt. I have a 16, 11, 9, and eight point bucks mounted that have been shot right from my backyard. I donāt hunt that much anymore. I do like to pick up the fresh road kills though. My yorkie can eat one deer a year. I have lived here for 46 years.
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With the roadkillās deer, how would you drain out the blood to take away the gammy taste?
if i could keep my freezer full of venison , i would. i love the meat and its so much better for you. moose is even better than deer because they eat a lot of water plants out of the lakes that makes their meat richer tasting. moose permits are a lottery so its very hard to get .
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Thereās not to many bloody spots. I still save it all. I cut it up into cubes and give it a rinse. Then I cook it with bubbly water. My dog loves the blood anyway.
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I donāt care for wild turkey either. I could try deep frying one yet but cooking in an oven bag with cream of mushroom soup didnāt work for me. They are dry and the breast meat is like dark meat which wasnāt bad but the dark meat was like dry liver! Lol
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As you can see my trees are protected and my garden is in the air. No problems except sometimes they get past my long fences. With deer there is a dominant doe. She has all her baby does fallow her around. She defends her turf from other deer. Once you kill her the next dominant doe will move in. All the deer in the picture didnāt live here last summer. They are a mixed bag of whatās left over. A dominant doe will claim my yard as they fill in and keep the rest out. The bucks just go where the does are. The young ones get chased away by their mother before breeding season.
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Our birdfeeder sees a steady stream of activity. about a month ago that was mostly cardinals and few other random birds, maybe a few sparrows or a chickadee. That has completely shiftedā¦weāre now seeing a preponderance of sparrows and this weekend even a red-bellied woodpecker tried his hand at eating from the feeder. We also used to have blue jays, but not seeing to many of them these days.
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That photo is so cool, good work capturing that one! The spiderās body reminds me of a gingham tablecloth. I donāt think Iāve ever thought of a spider as cute before. The background sure does make the action POP.
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seems the birdfeeder is attracting more than birdsā¦I know that possums have pretty poor eye sight. was checking the doors last night before going to bed and saw this guy hanging out under the feeder just picking up scrapsā¦I turned on the light and he kept going about his businessā¦
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They are really not very bright either. They wonāt run if they are eating and the light just blinds them so they wonāt run then either. They think running up a tree is a safe spotā¦Not safe to a hunter at allā¦ Armadillos are even worseā¦dumb as rocks. They will run straight at you and even crash on your legsā¦
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For sure. If I fancied myself a pot of possum stew this guy would have been easy pickingsā¦
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My dog brings me possums up to the deck all the time. A few nights ago I watched a possum doing the exact same thing as the one at your house thinking āif my dog only knew.ā
My dog killed a huge groundhog last summer that I have been trying to find for years. Now, with the addition of possumsā¦ Iām waiting for her to bring up a skunk. She brought that groundhog right up close to the house and sat upright waiting for me to see what she had brought. Boy did I praise her.
Dax
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Possums are good to have around they eat ticks and bugs.
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And fruit! Donāt forget that one 
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They especially like my grapes