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From: Allen on 28 Mar 2010 19:47 Allen wrote: > rwalker wrote: >> On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:43:48 +0100, Robert Spanjaard >> <spamtrap(a)arumes.com> wrote: >> >>> I thought I'd be happy if I could spot _one_ deer. I never expected >>> this. :-) >>> >>> http://www.arumes.com/temp/CRW_5204.jpg >> >> >> Where is this if you don't mind? I've seen this kind of thing in >> upstate New York where I live, but not often that many at once. > Reminds me of my back yard at times. I live in Austin TX in an area > labeled "Central City" by the real estate people, and it's not uncommon > to see as many as eight whitetails at once in our yard. Many of them > were born in our yard and the does keep returned to what we call the > "deer neonatal center" to bear their fawns. A nuisance, but beautiful > creatures. All the nurseries and garden shops have lists of what they > won't eat. Most herbs, such as rosemary and basil, are on the lists, but > surprisingly they don't eat irises. > Allen Another thing about my neighborhood deer--a woman walks her two dogs (both Great Pyrenees and huge)daily. One morning she walked by when I was outside and I asked her if the deer were afraid of her dogs; she said that they pay no attention to them. I watched as she went on and came to a doe foraging a couple of feet back from the curb. The doe turned her head, nodded as if to say "good morning" and went back to eating. Totally civilized, unless someone approaches a fawn. Allen
From: rwalker on 29 Mar 2010 01:12 On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:22:06 -0400, "David Ruether" <d_ruether(a)thotmail.com> wrote: >I've lived in some purdy nice areas (like Seattle, San Francisco, Phoenix, >Norman OK, Miami) and have traveled the west much and have been in >48 of the 50 states, but I kept returning to Ithaca for its wonderful "compact" >scenery. There are "zillions" of waterfalls (including the highest in the NE, >just up the road from me), glens, gorges, forests, rolling hills and fields, and >two great schools in this very small city, with most things within 5-10 minute >drive from my house, including the four NY State Parks here and the 25 >Ithaca city parks, including a very large city-owned natural area. Add to this >two large bird sanctuaries, Cornell's large numbers of land holdings, plantations, >and flower gardens open to the public, and it is no wonder I kept coming back >here and finally stayed (even with the often-gruesome weather.......;-). >--DR I try to get down to Ithaca every chance I get. It's only about a 40 minute drive from Seneca Falls.
From: rwalker on 29 Mar 2010 01:15 On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:03:09 +0200, Robert Spanjaard <spamtrap(a)arumes.com> wrote: >On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 21:38:47 -0400, rwalker wrote: > >> On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:43:48 +0100, Robert Spanjaard >> <spamtrap(a)arumes.com> wrote: >> >>>I thought I'd be happy if I could spot _one_ deer. I never expected >>>this. :-) >>> >>>http://www.arumes.com/temp/CRW_5204.jpg >> >> >> Where is this if you don't mind? I've seen this kind of thing in >> upstate New York where I live, but not often that many at once. > >National Park Hoge Veluwe, Netherlands. >http://maps.google.com/?ll=52.087734,5.83065&spn=0.082484,0.222988&t=h&z=13 Thanks. It actually looks a little like upstate New York.
From: rwalker on 29 Mar 2010 01:23 On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:03:09 +0200, Robert Spanjaard <spamtrap(a)arumes.com> wrote: > >National Park Hoge Veluwe, Netherlands. >http://maps.google.com/?ll=52.087734,5.83065&spn=0.082484,0.222988&t=h&z=13 In keeping with the theme of this thread, here is a photo I took a couple weeks ago with an old Brownie Hawkeye using Kodak Portra VC2: http://www.flickr.com/photos/51646689(a)N00/4472600014/
From: Ken Walls on 29 Mar 2010 02:08
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:23:14 -0400, rwalker <rwalker(a)despammed.com> wrote: >On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:03:09 +0200, Robert Spanjaard ><spamtrap(a)arumes.com> wrote: > >> >>National Park Hoge Veluwe, Netherlands. >>http://maps.google.com/?ll=52.087734,5.83065&spn=0.082484,0.222988&t=h&z=13 > > >In keeping with the theme of this thread, here is a photo I took a >couple weeks ago with an old Brownie Hawkeye using Kodak Portra VC2: > >http://www.flickr.com/photos/51646689(a)N00/4472600014/ While it's not uncommon to have 40+ deer amble by the edge of my woods every sunset-lit evening, and have tons of images of them, I prefer something a little more artistic, http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2757/4471900815_0f3b21b853_o.jpg or humorous. Like this one taken through my picture-window last winter, http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4021/4471900817_b617b850b8_o.jpg I was showing it everyone's usenet-posted crapshots. |