Is that your dog's tracks there with the deer or do you have a coyote problem like we have down here?
We've had a bit of a reprieve from the rain for a few days. Still get the light showers but nothing like it has been for the first part of the month.
9dawgs, that track could be either one. Have seen several coyotes in the last few weeks and they are ragged looking this time of the year.
Rain here has also slowed. Highway 77 is supposed to reopen this afternoon at 4pm, been closed since the 18th as Blue Lake flooded the roadway south of I-10. DOT has been pumping with 2 big pumps that are pushing the water over a ridge into a creek that goes to Flat Creek, then Holmes Creek, eventually into the Choctawhatee River. Still way too wet to put a tractor in the woods!
Treefarmer
Those coyotes are getting pretty brazen down here, coming into neighborhoods and such. I have a friend who lives in Clearwater right off US19. He was walking his dog the other day and a coyote started following him. This is in a heavily populated area too. It's not good when they get too comfortable around people.
been seening alot more here lately,goin to put the smack down on them this year ,got one of those primos callers,and going to put it to good use!goodbye brown dog.
Clover/corn food plot Day 100
Things are slow and things are wet. You can still hear the dog splashing through the water in the corn patches, and that ain't good. Compared to last season's food plot this one looks pretty anemic! Well such is life. The rain has let up somewhat but still have had 2 inches the 1st 3 days of September. Preparing the failed clover patch for a fall planting will require some real dry weather as it is bottom land.
Looks like the best place to hunt this year maybe on the front porch. If the pears would last the deer would stay in the yard! Lots of nannies, no fawns yet and several spikes are showing up on the camera. Haven't been to the lease property in several months, need to do a little work over there if it ever dries out.
Today's pics are of the raggedy clover/corn plot and our visitors in the front yard. The light colored area between the corn and the pine trees is the maturing crab grass where the clover was supposed to be. (If it will dry enough to cut a couple of short fire lines on the east and west sides, most of the crab grass will burn and a couple of trips with offset harrow and we'll have a seed bed but it's a long way from being dry enough to burn or disk.)
Treefarmer
