[Leica] Deer in winter.

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)]

Nathan Wajsman offered:
Subject: Re: [Leica] Deer in winter.
> They are so cute!! You should put some food out for them...

Nathan  mon ami,
They maybe cute on the screen or postcards or books about critters!

But in my garden in the summer and you have a wasteland of nothing when 
you've been expecting beautiful flowers and lots of fresh home grown 
veggies! The critters / deer where we live are a beautiful big pain in the 
butt through out the complete area.

They dash across the road and get injured, killed or cause accidents when a 
driver attempts to miss hitting one of them. We've had neighborhood meetings 
where the people want the herds culled in whatever fashion is easiest. 
There's so many they eat thousands of dollars worth of flowers and 
vegetables.

I know the young look like cute little Bambi's, but they grow up and create 
more little Bambi's and the herd gets bigger and bigger.

I have lots of neat pictures of them around our place and I'm sure I've 
posted some on the LUG.

There is usually great excitement when we have visitors from the Mainland 
with their children and eating away in the front garden are a half dozen 
deer of various size. The children have a great time and want to go outside 
and pet them.

There might be a click of the door opening and they're gone in a flash.

We'd be only too glad to round up a dozen or so and send them over to you if 
you'd like! ;-)

cheers,
ted