Build It and They Will Come

Not a field of dreams - perhaps a forest of dreams instead.

Game management is the art of making the land produce sustained annual crops of wild game for recreational use - Aldo Leopold

Yeah I know. I've been bitching about the deer population this week.

But it's really my own fault.

Ask yourself this - What do critters need?

The answer would be food, water and cover.

And that is pretty much what we've built for them. Aldo Leopold was spot-on. We've got grouse, woodcock, bunnies, turkey, a bunch of thieving raccoons and an occasional porcupine. Ducks too.

These are deer beds. Each photo is evidence of the deer bedding-down in pairs. Doe and fawn or siblings?

They can be found all over the place.

They have moved-in and set-up permanent housekeeping.

At the bottom of the top picture is a deer bed with pee in it.

How's that for housekeeping?