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Post by Dutch on Apr 1, 2015 20:41:27 GMT -5
My brother was out today and one of the dogs pointed a woodcock, on a nest. It did not fly off and held tight, even with a dog and handler 2 feet away.
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Post by bawanajim on Apr 1, 2015 21:57:01 GMT -5
My mother has baby rabbits in her yard that will fit in your hand, after the winter we had ?
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Post by Dutch on Apr 2, 2015 4:24:28 GMT -5
When it's time, it's time, right?
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Post by gobblerhunter on Apr 2, 2015 5:19:00 GMT -5
nice! Was out last evening and I didn't run into any nesting yet. Fact I really don't think I even saw a female
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Post by davet on Apr 2, 2015 9:15:33 GMT -5
My neighbor kid came across a sad one last week. Behind my house is about 7 acres of woods and a fair amount of deer hang out there as this piece is adjacent to some other larger parcels of 50+ acres that then connect to farms. Well, last week he knocked on my door as said behind my house was a "really small" dead fawn just laying in a position like it was sleeping. And ten feet away was a doe that was dead and he could tell the doe was being "chomped on" by the local critters. Well we talked about it and made some theories. I thought it was a bit early for the fawns to drop, so I just picked up the phone and called the local PGC office. I got a nice WCO woman on the line and told her what Patrick (neighbor kid) told me. She thought about it for a second and said that it's not to early for the fawns to drop. (I was not aware of this) and that likely what happen was the doe got hit by a car, made it back to the fawn (as I do know the fawns don't move far from where thy drop) and then the doe died. Then the fawn, having no source of nourishment, died later. So, Patrick and I "carted" down close to where these were and went over. Now, he found them the day before and this day the doe was almost gone. The fawn was nothing but a spread of fur. No bones left at all. Of course, fawn bones that early are likely not "bones" in the true sense anyway. So, I had gloves on and there were 4 leg bones and an intact spine. I began to examine the legs and sure enough, when I looked at one of the front legs, it was fractured pretty good.
So, the WCO made a good call....and Patrick made some good detailed observations on what he saw. The broken front leg indicated that doe suffered some pretty good trauma and died. Well, nature is cruel that way. But, what I'm going to miss is that when the deer drop 'em right behind my house....my wife and I are "entertained" for the entire summer when the fawn or fawns come out in the evening and run up and down the yard playing......while you can see mom's head just barley sticking out of the brush......saying....GET BACK IN HERE!!! THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE AND THEY WILL TRY TO KILL YOU THIS FALL!!! Who? Us? Just jerky on the hoof right now!!!
Dave
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