Same place, different deer (3/10)

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This is not the same yearling as in the previous picture, though the location is almost the same; across the street from our house. This deer just crossed the street from the west side of our house. She is very unconcerned with me and isn’t even looking at me when I took the picture. This picture was taken about a month after the previous one.

Incidentally, despite the caption in the picture, this is a mule deer, not a white tail.

Written by Rex Trulove

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    • Yep, they will sometimes kill trees by eating the bark, especially if they are hungry. If they have no predators, the problem becomes much worse, too. Deer can overpopulate very quickly.

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    • When there is no snow, they take advantage of the growing grass in yards to munch on. In the winter, we sometimes have two or three that bed down next to the house. The area is protected and there is grass under the snow that they can get to. They also know that I occasionally toss apples out there.

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        • They certainly think so. As long as they stay out of my garden when it is actively growing, we’re all cool. They are stubborn, though. A number of times when I’ve had to chase them away from the garden, I’ve come within arm’s length of one deer or another. In fact, that is why I feed them the apples where I do. It is away from the garden. lol

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          • They are so used to people that a scarecrow wouldn’t phase them. strips of neon colored tape work fairly well, though, and they don’t like the smell of the fermented fish that I use on the garden. Still, when they are determined, there isn’t much that can be done. The mule deer can jump an eight-foot fence flat-footed and without effort.

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        • There’s little doubt that the deer would eat the grass, but deer eat while they are on the move, usually to and from water. By doing it that way, by the time they get to their bedding grounds, they have plenty of food in their bellies and can lay and chew the cud at leisure. Thus, if left to the deer, you’d have meandering paths with shorter grass and the rest would still be long. LOL

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