From: Cameron Root
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Date: 17-Feb-18 |
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My abandoned house is losing shrubs
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From: Sinner
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Date: 17-Feb-18 |
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... and gaining new residents!
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From: Mpdh
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Date: 17-Feb-18 |
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I have lilacs, forsythias, and small crabapple trees that get chewed up every winter. Then in the spring, the deer eat my wife’s coneflowers.
MP
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From: Jeff Durnell
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Date: 17-Feb-18 |
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Deer did this to fully leafed rhododendrons(there's a smaller one in the background) in two nights 30' from my front door. I was even running them off when I'd see them, but they'd come back later.
Then they proceeded to eat all of the leaves off of the Virginia creeper in front of the house, up to within 3' of the front door and they'd be just a foot or two away from the bay window. My dogs would sit up there and bark and claw at the window, but the deer didn't care.
It's not like they're overpopulated here, but in the dead of winter when a couple of them they decide they want to eat something, they can sure Git er done.
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From: RymanCat
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Date: 17-Feb-18 |
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Deer were eating pine trees on my property this winter during the freeze ups.
I herd that pine needles were go for you to make a tea also. deer not so stupid I guess.
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From: Jon Stewart
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Date: 17-Feb-18 |
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Pine needles are starvation food for deer Cat. I think the OP showed cedar bushes which is candy for them.
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From: Jeff Durnell
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Date: 17-Feb-18 |
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White pine needle tea is ok, but hemlock tea is a lot better. More vitamin C than orange juice without the sugar... and tastes better imo.
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From: LKH
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Date: 17-Feb-18 |
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I'm buying 1/2" pellets and cracked corn. About $10 per 50#. Have about 40 coming in. Normally would never feed, but we had deep frozen ground, then snow, then melt and freeze and snow cycles. Ground covered with ice topped with hard snow, much that I can walk on and a "tourist" snow going on right now.
They need help. Also come waste wheat.
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From: Longcruise
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Date: 17-Feb-18 |
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Hey, cat, we have a bird here in the Rockies that is a reverse migrator. The blue grouse. Heads up into the high Alpine country and spends the winter in the pines and eating pine needles.
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From: Cameron Root
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Date: 17-Feb-18 |
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Interior of British Columbia was full of Blue grouse growing up
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From: South Farm
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Date: 19-Feb-18 |
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Count your blessings, I just paid a contractor to rip them unruly shrubs out! They'll swallow your house if you let 'em.
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From: RymanCat
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Date: 19-Feb-18 |
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Jeff send me recipe please for the tea how to do it. Deer been in on my honeysuckle also along fence and eating the sumac to.
Critters are smart they know what to eat unlike so many of us who poison ourselves with garbage.
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