Things Are Growing

Food plots, grass, weeds, wildflowers, buck antlers, fawns, ticks, poults, algae and everything else all seem to be growing fast right now.

We had been visiting family recently and, when we returned, we found 1.5" in the rain gauge.  With the rain came a cover of green in the recently planted food plots.

Some of it may even be the things that I planted.  But there are also a lot of weeds.  I put sunflowers and buckwheat in the pumpkin patch this year.  So far, I can see buckwheat and weeds.

Above the pond, I put in buckwheat and cowpeas.

I think that I can see evidence of both of them in addition to the weeds.

I'm guessing that these are cowpeas.

This was a replanted clover plot - it's spotty but generally ok.

I'm not sure if I made any difference with the bentonite on the pond leak.  But we do seem to have more algae this year.

Butterfly milkweed is blooming.

The wild wineberries aren't producing fruit yet.

I found new survey stakes and tape along one border of the property.  I'm wondering what the neighbor has in mind here.

I suspect that this was part of the survey crew.

I'm providing some minerals for the buck antlers and doe milk.

It's that amazing time of year.

The ticks are also finding plenty of hosts to feast on.

And the fawns are frolicking.

Including some twins.

Interesting capture at the driveway - a hawk of some sort?

The deer and the turkeys are mixing it up a bit.

Is she nested out there?

Fox.

Scraggly coyote.

I'm surprised how much strutting is still going on.

A turkey dust up.

Exuberance or panic?