It's Berry Time!

 This is the most pleasant invasive species on the property.  It's wineberry.

I have had some issues in the past with chiggers when I waded into the patch to pick berries.  So now, I usually spray down and close all openings in clothing.  I wasn't really prepared for it this week so I just picked around the edge.

As I was picking, I was startled by a huge thump.  I turned around and saw movement in the weeds. And this guy emerged.  He fell out of a tree behind me.  The nearest branch was at least 20' up but he seemed fine.

When I got home, Joan was on her way to the Cone and that worked out perfectly.  My favorite way to enjoy these berries.

There's always something broken at the farm.  This tire holds for the day but is flat by the time I return the following week.

While I was fussing with the tire, I turned around and spotted this emerging from the headlight area of my car.  I'm not sure of the species but he moved on unharmed.  Can't image when or how he got in there.

When I checked on the pumpkins, there were hoofprints inside the tape. I had just rototilled last week.

Quite a few hoof prints.

And some of the sunflowers had been munched.

This area was heavily browsed.

And this are wasn't. I reapplied the plotsaver stinky stuff to the tape.  Fingers crossed.

I tilled around my one row of pumpkins again and we got 0.25" of rain overnight.

I actually ate this peach - product of this damaged but surviving tree.  I had to eat around the deer nibble and the ants but it was really quite good.

Getting close to Africa time. I thought that I'd do another zero check on both guns. This is Eric's 308 and I wasn't sure if I had supported it on this bipod gizmo last time.  I made sure that I missed it this time.

The 308 is the bottom target.  That was three 3 shot groups with no adjustments (cooling time in between).  The 375 is the top target off sticks.  I found my zero quite a bit off.  That might explain some of the damage on my Bubba target.  Anyway I ended up putting 3 MOA in to the right and 2 MOA down. My last 3 shots were just left of the bullseye.

Driving around afterward with rifles in the rack

This heron is getting on my nerves.

And this was an interesting series with a hawk.

And turkey vultures.

I guess that they were cleaning up remnants.

Activity on the pond camera - check out the temps.

Twins!

Lots of fawn activity.

Twins again.

I saw an article about whether ticks can kill fawns.  OL Fawns and Ticks  It was kind of creepy and then I saw this photo of a fawn.  That eye looks worrisome.

Turkeys on the prowl.

Including with poults.

And the crew looking for fawns and poults.

Bucks in velvet.

This is one of the plots that I planted in sunflowers.  Completely taken over with pigweed.  Ugh!