cold and really hungry

[gunsil]

These guys and gals were in my yard this morning. Gotta be pretty desperate for food to be feeding on pine needles! Been 2-3 feet of snow on the ground here for the last two months, hard for them to forage. Photo taken through window with screen which sort of looks like a fence in the pic. I don't really like these large varmints, they destroy my flower beds and berry bushes, but I do feel a little sorry for their hunger in this kind of winter. Can no longer discharge firearms in this county, and my shoulders are shot from too many years of hard work so I can't use a bow, so they get by without ending up being invited for dinner. Supposed to be 40-50 degrees here for the next ten days, I do believe the thaw has finally begun!!!

 

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[packerbacker]

Starvation is a rough way to die. I have driven across country on I-80 during the winter and seen crows flying along the highway searching for food. It's a tradition now for me to buy large bags of Cheetos to treat them as I drive. I wait 'til I see some crows and then toss a handful out on the roadway. It's amazing how far away they spot this and fly down to get them.

 

[Meadow]

Starvation is a rough way to die. I have driven across country on I-80 during the winter and seen crows flying along the highway searching for food. It's a tradition now for me to buy large bags of Cheetos to treat them as I drive. I wait 'til I see some crows and then toss a handful out on the roadway. It's amazing how far away they spot this and fly down to get them.

Aw. On the off chance those are 'my' crows for whom I'm waiting up here in Canada, we thank you. Hey, one never knows. Cheetos are their favorite food. They should be back in a week or two and hubby bought a bag of Cheetos just for them today! Even though he hates parting with the Cheetos.

 

[vpnavy]

Nice photographs but kind of sad as well. Thanks for sharing...

 

[bzbadger]

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These guys and gals were in my yard this morning. Gotta be pretty desperate for food to be feeding on pine needles! Been 2-3 feet of snow on the ground here for the last two months, hard for them to forage. Photo taken through window with screen which sort of looks like a fence in the pic. I don't really like these large varmints, they destroy my flower beds and berry bushes, but I do feel a little sorry for their hunger in this kind of winter. Can no longer discharge firearms in this county, and my shoulders are shot from too many years of hard work so I can't use a bow, so they get by without ending up being invited for dinner. Supposed to be 40-50 degrees here for the next ten days, I do believe the thaw has finally begun!!!

Not sure if you've ever seen or done this but of course feed corn for them is one thing but I see you have trees so here's what im saying. Half inch diameter dowel rods cut 10" long sharpen one end, make several of them. Go to your tree and drill 1/2" hole couple inches about 4" from bottom of tree and pound the dowels in. Stick apples on the pegs and give the deer something to eat, gives you a chance at some other great pictures. The deer can smell those apples from long distance. Even though I used to hunt before Lyme disease got me I always liked to watch the deer and hated knowing a lot starve in my area.

 

[Hitndahed]

Time for that 175# crossbow eh?
LOL

 

[gunsil]

Not sure if you've ever seen or done this but of course feed corn for them is one thing but I see you have trees so here's what im saying. Half inch diameter dowel rods cut 10" long sharpen one end, make several of them. Go to your tree and drill 1/2" hole couple inches about 4" from bottom of tree and pound the dowels in. Stick apples on the pegs and give the deer something to eat, gives you a chance at some other great pictures. The deer can smell those apples from long distance. Even though I used to hunt before Lyme disease got me I always liked to watch the deer and hated knowing a lot starve in my area.

Like I said, they eat well off my flowers and berries in season, they have killed hundreds of dollars of berry bushes. If I feed them now it will be even harder to keep them away from my plants in the summer. I have friends who feed them, and although I hate to see them starve they are overpopulated here, and hard winters are part of nature's way of thinning the herd when there are no natural predators to feed on them and man isn't allowed to use guns to hunt them.

 

[worldtalker]

I don't like the taste after they eat that stuff.

GOD Bless

Chris

 

[bzbadger]

Here in Maryland we're allowed to hunt and tag several due to overpopulation and them starving. Funny how man always steps in and ruins the balance things then idiots in elected positions make rules that make things worse like your law of not being able to cull the herds

 

[TJE]

Still look healthy enough to survive I think...(I've watched Elk standing up on hind legs reaching up 7-8 feet high "browsing" on same trees in heavy winters). Great pics!