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Lovely!This one grew-up in the neighborhood and she hung around for eight years....I guess she passed last year.
She was odd in that her legs were a few inches shorter than most other deer.....Mean bitch though, she would chase-off any deer, bucks included, out of the yard.....I never saw her with a fawn.View attachment 750044
They look....Tasty.Another snow storm two days ago, but in 40s today, guess who decided to show up for some of the deer corn and sunflower seeds?
The Wild Turkeys! I haven't seen them all winter!!! Yay! They survived the -19 degree arctic front we had earlier!!!
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They are pretty fat considering they just went thru winter!
Matt and I are meat eaters, but we've never had to kill for our own meat....well, cuz we haven't had to! My one closer neighbor is a Hunter, mostly deer, moose, and bear, not the Grouse or wild turkey or duck or geese or other birds here....They look....Tasty.
Pan-fried wild turkey breast is a real treat.....The rest I just stew.Matt and I are meat eaters, but we've never had to kill for our own meat....well, cuz we haven't had to! My one closer neighbor is a Hunter, mostly deer, moose, and bear, not the Grouse or wild turkey or duck or geese or other birds here....
But if the proverbial Shit Hit the Fan situation ever did occur, Maine has plenty of wildlife to sustain us, let alone the halibut, salmon, and lobster, and clams....
We have just on our property, turkey, grouse (which looks like a chicken), mallard ducks, Canadian geese that fly over spring and fall, rabbit...snow shoe hares actually, bear and deer galore. Then the sea is just a mile, so the seafood....
But, I could never, nor could Matt, eat deer or bear unless perhaps on deathbed from starvation....because we've befriend them over the 17 years here in Maine!
In fact we are waiting for our bear to show up, this is her first stop after hibernation, since she was a baby cub!
My bear just takes it off the hook and runs with it till we can't see her....then the next day we take a walk in the woods and retrieve it....she's broken one over the years, most we can put back together!Pan-fried wild turkey breast is a real treat.....The rest I just stew.
As far as bear, if they all went extinct today it would suit me just fine. What they don't shit on they tear-up, and they are poor table fare.....The damn things are everywhere.
I've given up on buying bird feeders except at yard sales and such.
Here's what was left of one (cost me $1 at a YS) from a couple of weeks back. It was the work of a a 450 pounder.
I had to run his ass off the patio the next evening when he was trying to get at the suet cake feeder I had put out of his reach.
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I had to put "hood-pins" on my Herby-Curby due to the number of times it's been attacked. Got tired of chasing trash.My bear just takes it off the hook and runs with it till we can't see her....then the next day we take a walk in the woods and retrieve it....she's broken one over the years, most we can put back together!
When she was a cub, her mom would bring her...she went straight for sunflower seeds and her mom hit the garbage can...two times with trash spread on the driveway. We ended up doing a circle of Clorox around the can, and the mom never came again, but the cub did....
She's a beautiful black bear, with the most beautiful face and smile when caught stealing the sunflower seeds, Blackest of black, shiny coat. About 300 pounds....she might have been 40lbs when first introduced.
