[at-l] silent spring

[lwbooher@halifax.com (Leslie Booher)]

Just wait until the DEER find your garden.  We can't garden at all for that
reason.  We drive in at night and catch deer in our headlights.  What are
they doing before they run?  Systematically eating our grass, plants, etc.
I've taken pix of them eating the apples off our tree.  We live on about 2
acres in town.  anklebear

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To: <hopefl@juno.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 11:45 PM
Subject: Re: [at-l] silent spring


>
> Same thing has happened up the hill from us and the problem we have is
that
> there are 10 head of whitetail deer that used to have the hill behind my
> house and the creek and park below us as their habitat - now it's just the
> creek and park (the park and creek are about 1/4 mile wide and rap around
the
> bottom of the neighborhood.  I did my nightly 5 miles with pack on the
Mason
> Dixon trail tonight through the park and saw 4 of the does bouncing
through
> the woods across the creek from me as I entered the park.  Saw one bound
> across the creek in front of me on the return to the house.  I used to see
> them infrequently which was OK (made the sitings that much more special).
> Now they bounce around in a small piece of ground all the time and run
down
> the street from time to time.  The neighborhood kids (my 9 YO daughter
> included) think it's neat because they get to see the deer more often and
> from an education perspective about how precious and worth preserving they
> are, I guess that's good.  On the other hand, I think it's sad commentary
on
> sprawl.  I've been working with the County government for the past four
years
> to repair the patchwork open space mentality we've developed on the East
> Coast that counts acres of trees, not habitat preservation, but it's a
> constant struggle.  Wish me luck.
>
> BTW - we have feeders and birdhouses in the yard and a thriving dove,
> bluejay, finch and cardinal population - makes it tough to get output from
my
> garden, but what the heck, they are fun to watch.
>
> Black&blue
>
> In a message dated 02/19/02 10:51:13 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> hopefl@juno.com writes:
>
>
> > Recently most of the woods along the top of the ridge we
> > live on was torn down for yet another subdivision. This happened about
> > Christmas. Some time after the woods were carried off on log trucks, I
> > began to notice fewer and fewer feathery friends at my feeders. It has
> > been well established that the loss of habitat is the main reason for
the
> > decline in American song birds. As the green areas near cities are
> > destroyed, the birds will be forced to move farther afield. Many will be
> > force out of nesting all together. Pressure will be put on all the song
> > birds in the areas were the former city dweller go in search of new
> > range.
> >
>
>
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