Scouting and picking blackberries

[critch]

#2633

Well, the wife and I went picking blackberries on our farm yesterday and it gave me a really good chance to take a look around before the season starts. I saw two fawns and momma was only a few steps away, they moved on pretty quickly. We were on one side of a berry patch and there was a young coon on the other eating to his heart.s content. He would only move if we approached and he still keep eating.

I noticed that the deer are really using an old mill road on the side of a hill to move from one end of my farm (100 acres) to the other, it’s pretty much the path of least resistance while staying in cover..this gives me some ideas on where to set up for archery season.

I also saw a beautiful red fox, I don’t see them often around here….it was moving across a small field and looked like it was after field mice or something..I don’t know if red fox are scarce around here or just real good at hiding.

We picked a little over 1 1/2 gallons of berries. We’ll do one or two more pickings this week before the berries start to shrivel. They’re very sweet this year and large. last year we had a drought that started in April and the berries were terrible.

[Doc Nock]

#11430

AWESOME!!! Great to read that… what a lovely outing!

We have an old tree nursery behind us and farm fields to one side…rest of area is in the boro.

There was a young red fox sneaking along the edge of my neighbor’s deck and wheelchair ramp… then out under his pick up…then into the tree nursery (which is to soon be “developed”.)

Broad daylight….but I’ve seen reds in daylight often this time of year…usually the young who’ve gotten kicked outa the den last month and are trying to figure out how to survive… this one has no fear of people…. 😯

[Ralph]

#11798

Funny Doc, when I have bow in hand no critters seem to worry about me either.

When I was a lad I had a little wooden bow my neighbor had given me along with a handful of arrows. I was in his berry patch “borrowing” some berries when I shot a cottontail rabbit with that little bow. That’s when I became hooked on bowhunting.

Must been something in the berries.:D

[Doc Nock]

#11870

Gets a little droll after 15 sits and all deer are 100 yards away, or worse, no deer seen at all!!!

Course, that is tree stand hunting. I think I’ll carry my roll-a chair stool with me and hunt the ground this year1

[critch]

#12624

Based on many years of observation and prognostication I really believe we’re going to have an early fall. Normally it’s just a few degrees hotter than Hell around here at this time of year, but our temps for the next week are way below normal, and so is the humidity. In August of 1981 we were wearing flannel shirts and light jackets due to the sudden coolness, but it had been a very cool summer as well…this one is the same.

I think it will be cooler earlier this fall for archery season. I hope so.

I’ve also noticed that sumac and some other bushes are already turning red…

[Doc Nock]

#12635

MO, huh?

Should’ve moved there when I came in NOV to look around! 🙁

Hotter’n the hinges of hades here… but it’s been a very weird year… heavy snows, cold wet spring, then hot, then cool, back to hot and humid as I sit here sweating.

great holiday weekend, though. Beautiful weather!

IF there is a chance I remember my biology at all, if there is a period of dry weather, a meristem grows partly over the base of leaves and that can start to precipitate color change… and early leaf drop.

I think I just have “weather envy” Critch… cool is my fav!

[critch]

#13191

I saw a beautiful young buck, 4 pointer in the velvet on another piece of property down in the delta. He was fat, there’s lots of food and water this year…

I saw him first, when he saw me he took off like a striped-a$$ ape…

[Doc Nock]

#13212

BTW, just how FAST [b]are [/b]those striped-a$$ apes in MO?:lol:

[critch]

#13599

They’re so fast I’ve never seen one….but my dad often talked about them…and turpentined cats….:D

[Ralph]

#14185

Here’s one when he’s resting up!:D They only look striped when you cain’t see’um.:wink:

[hunt1321]

#14245

I’ve noticed all of the blackberries this year. Seems as if though I haven’t seen them for a few years. Mullberries were heavy as well. I hope your right about the early fall; I hate living here in the summer. Went to Doniphan today to current river to swim with the kids, it was almost too cool! Saw a couple of striped apes out there! 😉

[critch]

#14261

I grew up in Doniphan and Grandin…not many monkeys…

[Doc Nock]

#14787

We have a few of these around… didn’t stay long enough to check for stripes…

[Ralph]

#14950

I think Doc cropped the picture, it did have a “bow” in it’s hand. 😀 Or something:wink:

What happened to the berries and deer?:D

[Ralph]

#14968

OK, back in the bow world.

:D:D

[Doc Nock]

#14998

R2 wrote: I think Doc cropped the picture, it did have a “bow” in it’s hand. 😀 Or something:wink:

What happened to the berries and deer?:D

You would know, Ralph, since you sent it to me!

That weren’t no bow I cropped out…just the universal sign language sign for ‘You’re # 1!”

Kinda accentuates how pug ugly that ole critter’s mug really is

[Ralph]

#15068

Doc Nock wrote: [quote=R2]I think Doc cropped the picture, it did have a “bow” in it’s hand. 😀 Or something:wink:

What happened to the berries and deer?:D

You would know, Ralph, since you sent it to me!

That weren’t no bow I cropped out…just the universal sign language sign for ‘You’re # 1!”

Kinda accentuates how pug ugly that ole critter’s mug really is

Innocent I am, just shootin’

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