We got out Friday afternoon and it was raining and wet. The neighbors installed a new water line across the driveway and cut the phone line to the house. Frontier Communications says they'll be out in a week or so. Nice.
Anyway, it just kept getting foggier and rainier.
I watched this nine point for almost an hour. He was chasing does - I eventually saw 13 does and two bucks.
He went back and forth across the field checking and chasing does. Here's a video.
Buck Grazing
The closest he got was 39 yards. I might have had a hard time resisting if he came into 20 yards.
Here's a photo of him from the trailcam.
Another nice buck that has been around. The short tine on his left side is a "w".
This buck bomb was found on the way to the stand. It is the poop of the week.
On Saturday, I did the camera tour on foot in the rain. The pond is looking pretty good.
The volunteer pumpkins in the clover field are being consumed.
Not much action on the protein block this week.
Lots of small rubs,
I found this remnant on my walk. My daughter the Vet confirmed my suspicion that it was a bunny. The question is, who got it - coyote, fox, hawk, or owl.
There was a little bit of fur but most of it was gone.
I found this pile of hairy poop a few hundred yards away. The rain washed most everything other than the hair away. I don't think this was fresh enough to be associated with that gut pile.
The warm season grass "prairie plot" really did pretty well this year.
The color change is just kicking into gear.
This is the field edge scrape that I found last week. I just turned one of the trailcams to look at it.
Here's an example of what I got. More later.
Just for the record, the camera tour on foot is 1.6 miles and 4,331 steps.
I went up to the pond stand to clear shooting lanes. The black locust has been growing tall enough to obscure the view. This is what I found. Poops on the door landing and on the stool inside the stand.
I really don't know who would leave me these little treasures 20' up and inside the stand.
More rubs.
The frost/freeze finished the pumpkin vines.
I did manage to harvest some more treasures out of the field.
Cold weather means the resumption of hostilities with the invaders. I watched one scurry across the kitchen floor one morning.
Sunday morning the sun came out and so did a few turkeys as I was doing the breakfast dishes.
Van and Donny were out to do a few chores this week.
The bobcat is still on the prowl - add him to the list of potential bunny killers.
I've been reading that foxes disappear when coyotes move in. Not so on my place (yet).
A possum enjoying the block as the deer watch.
A skunk passing by a doe. Do does get sprayed?
The 9 point.
Working the scrape.
Junior.
Junior looks wide.
9 again
Last week's walk - better weather.
Huffing after climbing the hill from the valley.
