Rain, Germination, and Fawns

 The rain has continued in our absence and we have some desired and undesired germination.

In the pumpkin patch, the one row of long growing season pumpkins that I planted has come up quite nicely.

Unfortunately, so did a green blush of weeds and grass.  If it ever dries out, I will plant some more rows and attempt to do some weed control.

The long main field that I planted in soybeans appears to have come in well also.  These are "roundup ready" so I will spray them in a couple weeks.  In the past, the deer have wiped them out before they got 4" tall.  It could still happen again.

The sunflower fields have some germination but it is patchy and not very dense.  This is probably due to my relatively low seeding rate.

I really just want fall plots in these fields and I planted sunflowers as a "placeholder".  If they do come up, I suspect the deer will hammer them before we get many blooms.

We have a couple of high quality clover fields.

I have a fair density of a weed that I don't remember from previous years.

The Seek app has identified it as nippleweed.

Apparently my arsenal has been lacking but this was solved for Father's Day when my grandkids gave a couple of slingshots and a box of paintballs.  Would this be appropriate for visiting neighborhood dogs?

Trailcams caught my expedited planting process this year. Disking.

Broadcast seeding.

Rolling with a cultipacker.

Joan and I had been out touring in our new Polaris machines.

I stopped to clear clogged culverts.

Joan has kind of adopted the blue General as "hers".

When we passed thru on the way to Virginia, we made a short stop at the farm and I tried to squeeze in mowing the new orchard before dark.

Of course, I got the zero turn stuck in a wet tractor rut and had to yank it out with the General.

I previously reported that I had found a fawn bedded inside the new electric fence at the orchard. Turkeys in background in this shot.

I suspected that the doe might have intentionally parked the fawn there for safety.  This week there was photo evidence that seemed to support that idea.

A fawn between the wires in this shot.

Did this doe just get zapped?

More curious visitors.

I had a ton of photos on the cameras.  From this point on, I haven't sorted them in any particular order and the more interesting ones will show up however the app sorted them.

Bobcat.

Strutting turkey.

There were hundreds of fawn photos.

The bucks are progressing.

Strutting up on the driveway.

And in the woods.

Airborne.

It seems that not all does have delivered.

Bobcat.

Some does have twins (or triplets?).

Hopefully we will have a pause in the rain soon so some fieldwork can continue.  It is more likely that it will just stop completely for a couple months.