It sure is fun to see sites like this in our backyard all winter long. I remember looking out the window one night and seeing over 30 deer bedded down right in our yard, it was peaceful and sweet... I actually like animals this way... from inside my house feeling safe... hehehe (kindof like at the zoo... I am completely calm with all those sturdy cages...)
Until I took a walk around the yard today... watching every step as our yard is similar to a mine field with deer poop as the ammunition! I was curious to see why our brand new pine trees were looking so sparse... Hmmmm, not liking those deer so much right now!! Anyone purchased a 6 foot pine tree lately? Not cheap! Not sure why... but not cheap. We planted two cute little vanderwolf pines in the summer of 07'... winter of 07'/08' sweet little deer mutilated them rubbing their horns and using them as a scratching post. So summer of 08' we pulled out the bare trunks and planted two of these... as per the garden centers expertise... because deer "don't like this type of pine." Apparently they were wrong! See the nice green stems on the ground... that SHOULD be on the tree... I can't tell if it is from rubbing on them or eating the soft little shoots on the end... but they also got our flowering crab apple trees... several burning bush.... forsythia etc... 
My brothers are big time hunters... in fact the first winter that we moved in and the girls noticed all the deer in our backyard, they immediately said, "Oh no, don't tell Uncle Steve or Dan that we have deer here!" Not sounding like such a bad idea now....
(disclaimer to all PETA friends... kidding... only kidding)
4 comments:
Eric hates the deer because they ate some of our fruit trees the first fall they were planted. I think they're pesky when they hang out where they don't belong. But I'm not sure what to do about it -- other than wrap your trees in the winter. (We use chicken wire.)
I am soooo sorry about your trees. We have deer here too but so far they have left our vegetation alone. I don't think ours are as tasty. They prefer the Hansen's to ours as well.
She was right! This is a cute blog.
And expect a call this fall! Love your stuff.
Maybe you could use it for next years Christmas tree!?
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