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Post by bigredneck on Feb 5, 2014 11:01:54 GMT -5
There are islands on the Allegheny river between Parker and Foxburg, right where the Clarion river joins the Allegheny. A doe has raised her fawns on there for the last couple years and now with the river jammed with ice, there are a few pockets of open water, she is keeping them there. It is not unusual to see deer or bears swimming the river in this area and there have been deer lost in the ice before. the first pic is with 2X the second 8X and the same with the pic of the geese, they are about 100yds downriver from the deer    |
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Post by bake545 on Feb 5, 2014 11:44:57 GMT -5
What are they eating?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2014 20:00:13 GMT -5
Probably the safest spot she could be.
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Post by Dutch on Feb 5, 2014 20:02:35 GMT -5
It'll be interesting to see how much of that low brush is there in the spring.
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Post by bushmaster on Feb 6, 2014 9:30:48 GMT -5
Cool pics. There are a few small islands in the Ohio right below the point in Pittsburgh that have deer on them. Neville Island the largest of them has resident deer. I've seen them swim the Ohio on several occasions.
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Post by davet on Feb 6, 2014 10:57:33 GMT -5
When the buck season begins there are several small "islands" around the Loyalhanna damn that have a ton of low brush on 'em and you cannot get to 'em except perhaps by boat. However, it's doubtful that you could sneak up on one of these small retreats as if deer were hiding there, they would just sneak to the other side and swim to the next little retreat, Now, not all deer do this, but I have a feeling this is where the big boys go...as this is how they get to be "big boys."
Dave
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Post by bigredneck on Feb 6, 2014 13:02:20 GMT -5
There are some grassy areas along the edge of these islands and there is also some "underbrush".
Folks will camp on these islands in the summer but there are a few that are nothing but brush were you usually see her when the fawns are small.
It is neat to see them in late summer when the river is low. The shallow water lets her move the small fawns from island to island, they will be almost to their belly's in water as she fusses with them until they get to dry ground.
BTW fishermen say the walleye and small mouth fishing in this part of the river is great, lots of weed beds.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2014 8:09:26 GMT -5
Neat bigredneck! Deer look to have decent body mass.
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Post by Sr.Chief on Feb 26, 2014 6:12:26 GMT -5
I did see on the news the other day of 2 fawns that were on the ice flow, just wonder if they were the same deer.
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Post by davet on Feb 26, 2014 8:20:13 GMT -5
I saw that.....the deer on the ice flow. The pics on the news (from what I could see) they seemed to be first year "young n dumb" ones. On the later news reports from what the local's said the ice had shifted and those small deer went down. Well, theres only a few million left. Things like this happen. Meh.
Dave
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Post by bigredneck on Feb 26, 2014 11:15:09 GMT -5
A friend saw the 3 deer trying to get off the ice the other day, some idiot ran up and tried to take their picture and turned the deer, 1 did not make it back to the island. The ice is now clear on one side of the island and the deer are gone, not sure if they made it to dry ground or not.
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