Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/02/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I know, Ted, I lived in western NJ for 5 years, where deer are the main road hazard at night. We were not into gardening, so there was nothing to eat in our garden, but I see it must be a nuisance. Nevertheless, they are cute and photogenic. And the only reason there are "too many" is that we humans have screwed up the ecosystem by exterminating the wolves and other predators. Can you not keep them out of the garden with a fence? Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog YNWA On Feb 24, 2011, at 1:19 AM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >