MD nature pics thread

[mpollan1]

Good-sized doe in my mom's yard last Saturday at 3:00 in the afternoon. I buy corn for her to put out and she has a bunch of deer and squirrels that come up to get it. The deer usually come late in the evening or after dark. We were having a birthday party for her and about 10 of us were on the porch, talking and laughing, and the doe is so used to people being there she didn't even care.

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Here is another pic of the same deer, but zoomed in so you can see her a little better. There is a doe that hangs around with three fawns and this may be her...I can see her udder is distended.

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She ate corn for about 15 minutes before just wandering off. They drink from mom's fishpond almost every evening.

When I lived there as a kid, this was a farm. Deer were very uncommon and we would only see tracks across the fields about once a year. After the old folks died off, they developed the farm (the house in the background is a new neighbor) and now there are deer around all the time.

What is in the pots in the first picture? Surprised that has not been mowed to the ground.

 

[Roro]

I didn't even know we had porcupines in MD.

We see a few every now and again near me. Have seen more around Woodmount WMA.

 

[E.Shell]

What is in the pots in the first picture? Surprised that has not been mowed to the ground.

The brown pot is a tomato. The first blue pot is Sedum. don't know what the other pot is, maybe a sweet pepper. The birds eat the sedum leaves, but the deer don't bother it.

 

[mpollan1]

I didn't even know we had porcupines in MD.

Nonetheless, we have an abundance of pricks.

 

[joppaj]

Lovely little male horsefly on my car this afternoon.

 

[rambling_one]

Those lovely things have a pretty impressive bite.

 

[Mr H]

Those lovely things have a pretty impressive bite.

And that's the TOOF!!

 

[newmuzzleloader]

Little sika doe down at Assateage this morning

 

[Mr H]

Little sika doe down at Assateage this morning

Since you're there, I'm invoking the "MDS Knows Everything" clause

Are all the repairs to the boardwalks on the "Life of..." trails finished?

 

[Mr H]

My camera needs a talking-to... the really cool shots I thought I had never took

But, my impromptu water feature is still making for some neat viewing...

 

[newmuzzleloader]

Since you're there, I'm invoking the "MDS Knows Everything" clause

Are all the repairs to the boardwalks on the "Life of..." trails finished?

Sorry Mr H but I don't have that answer for you. We were on a boardwalk trail that had repairs done to it but I have no idea if it was named

 

[Roscoe1]

Pulled from an old IPhone. I named him Smorgasbord. He sat under our garage light, free pickings !

 

[Roscoe1]

Yes folks that's me in 2000, being a dumbass with a Copperhead near Pocomoke MD. Too funny I thought the G-Shock would never die!

 

[Roscoe1]

Here is another on the farm.

 

[Roscoe1]

Little sika doe down at Assateage this morning

Cool! Was that on the trail to the Lighthouse?

 

[rambling_one]

Yes folks that's me in 2000, being a dumbass with a Copperhead near Pocomoke MD. Too funny I thought the G-Shock would never die!
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How long would you estimate its length to be? You’re braver than I my friend.

 

[308Scout]

Yes folks that's me in 2000, being a dumbass with a Copperhead near Pocomoke MD. Too funny I thought the G-Shock would never die!
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Coming up on 3 years since I had to deal with this little bit of nature in the bedroom at 6AM. It was just under 3' IIRC.

 

[Roscoe1]

How long would you estimate its length to be? You’re braver than I my friend.

The one I toyed with may have been 3'. However the one by itself was big, thick. In 20+years I've come across 5 Copperheads on the farm. I try to let nature do its thing and not kill them. I take a set of long trash pick up tongs and put them in a bucket. Relocate them a mile down the road on state hunting land. I named this spot copperhead trail! When the asscrackers from NJ come down here for deer season, I always tell them location is full of deer, lol

 

[Roscoe1]

I look back, I was in the same category as the idiot putting his hands through the bars at the lion exhibit, lol

 

[joppaj]

Coming up on 3 years since I had to deal with this little bit of nature in the bedroom at 6AM. It was just under 3' IIRC.

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I'd have felt really bad knowing what 00 Buckshot was about to do to my floor and wall, but not as bad as I'd have felt about snake venom in my bloodstream...