[Leica] Down with Bambi. NOW: GO BAMBI GO!!!!!! ;-)

[wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)]

Dr. Ted Grant wrote:

>I at one time would get absolutely furious about them eating off a couple 
>hundred dollars of newly planted flowers or sun flowers coming up 
>beautifully about two feet high, only to come out one morning to find the 
>bud and about a foot of the stock gone! End of sun flower season! :-( A 
>rant 
>ensued! Finally I gave up and figured if you can't beat the ...! Join them 
>and figure out how to move them along to the neighbours yard or farther 
>along the street. :-)
>
>Hence my reading about deer and the type of flowers they rarely eat. And 
>discussion with the local flower growing companies for advice! Now better 
>use of false flowers that make a major difference.

As far as I'm concerned out-smarting them like this is the best way to deal 
with them.

>By the same token where would you rather live? In a condo right in the 
>heart 
>of the noise blown city? Where the only "wild life" you encounter are the 
>drunks and druggies or whatever other low life? Or sort of on the out 
>skirts 
>of town where once in awhile some of the critter beauties of Mother Nature 
>quietly saunter through your yard, stop for a bite here and there and move 
>on?
>
>I need not tell you my preference! :-)

Nor mine :)  I'll take the flower-eating deer any day.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com