One of my readers asked if we have that many deer around here (I mentioned a line of cars at the local butcher shop). He said he didn't recall me mentioning deer in my journal.
Well, we have plenty of them: Almost any time I ride down at the river bottoms or in farmers' fields, Blue and I scare up a deer or two. One day I was riding along the levee and gave Cliff a call on my cell phone; the minute I said something, two deer jumped out of the weeds not ten feet away, which of course made Blue jump with surprise. I almost dropped my phone!
There's an article in today's Kansas City Star about the growing problem of car accidents involving deer: click HERE. I hope you don't have to sign up in order to read it, but if so, let me know and I'll just copy and paste the article to an entry.
I don't have the opportunity to get pictures of deer because they're so fast at getting away. By the time I calm my horse down and dig the camera out of my pocket, they're long gone.
8 comments:
Those deer are beautiful but such a problem on the roads. We have lots killed on the roads every year and it is very dangerous. Take good care ! 'On Ya' - ma
We now have four that graze in our backyard at the edge of the woods. I just love to see them early morning and I don't even mind them eating the bushes ... wait! Did I say I don't mind? I'm fibbing ..... but I let them anyway. Everyone's got to eat!
Sounds like aroung here! Only they can be hard to find when you have a gun. LOL - Barbara
I think I've had Venison once, and that was when, as a child, we went on vacation to visit my stepfather's family in Kansas. Now, I have no clue if the deer was shot there.. or in Missouri. My SF was actually born in Missouri.. not sure where though. I just know that he lived close to a bridge, that when you crossed it (It was an old rickety bridge, I do remember that) you were in Missouri. It went over a small body of water. Amazing the things you remember.
So.. do you and Cliff eat Venison? Does Cliff like to deer hunt?
Jackie
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i see lots of deer here also.
I never tire of seeing deer. My neighbor hit a deer with his car and then his truck in a two week period. He works as a guard at a prison and drives home after dark. Paula
The deer are a problem here too. There is no deer hunting because its too close to residences but there are many killed on the roads. I saw 3 yesterday.
I live by Monkey Mountain, which has no monkeys but many many deer. I am still haunted by the baby deer I hit one night.
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