On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Stephen M. Henning wrote:
"gunnar" wrote:
cant believe this I live in Warwick RI a city of 80,000 plus people. I was
sitting out by the pond and all of a sudden a doe comes walking out of the
brush on side of my house. looks at us and walks to a swamp in back yard. I
am in shock still
What is shocking is that you haven't seen deer before. They are
nocturnal so you will see them most often at dusk or dawn. Any property
in the Eastern US anywhere near brush or a forest will have deer. We
sometimes have 20 to 30 at one time in our yard. They eat most anything
that is green. They suposedly don't drink water but get their water
from moisture in and on what they brouse.
We have a herd, about a dozen most of the year but we've probably hit that
30 mark sometimes. Our girls as we call them (and boys) do drink water.
They drink from my ponds all the time! I made a pond just for their
drinking pleasure and can't keep it full so they come drink from the
others. One doe sleeps right against our house under a bush. I think
it's the one I named Granny Junior (one of Granny's daughters; Granny
is our oldest doe, probably 10). They are like pets and eat everything,
including plants deer "never eat." No one told them that! I have
hundreds of cages on plants but they can knock the metal staples out
sometimes and eat anyway. I'm in Central MD.
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