Recent content by sandbur

I have read a few things about different strains of cwd. True or not, heck if I know. Certain soils also hold the prion.

I haven’t partridge hunted that area for a few years, but deer numbers seemed poor by Outing and better from Emily south. Of course, the cwd hunts are/were now in that area.

I suspect there are lots of concerns about spies/ information leaks. Harder to reduce this with another country involved or worse with a group of countries like NATO. I suspect the reduced amount of press in the Pentagon is for the same reason. I will go as far to say fear of leaks is probably...

The tag will probably indicate Anty as I assumed all SLN at that time were Anty. As to Clown’s Nose. It is a much smaller and younger tree. I have it and two more marked as dolgo seedlings and suspect these were from seeds I collected . Who knows if I mixed things up. One of the other two I...

I need to check the tag on the Violi’s. Buckman does not have bird sized crabs but much larger. The sister dolgo seedling is right next to it with bird sized fruit. All of these dolgo seedlings of that age are big husky trees. I top worked two to other varieties and wonder what the rootstock...

Buckman Crab is still attracting deer favorite. It was attracting deer but I shook some limbs before leaving.

Someone on this forum helped name this dolgo seedling as Clown’s Nose. Noticed how close it is to a red cedar with no significant CAR problems. I shook some limbs before trekking on.

Violi’s is still attracting deer. I shook some limbs after this picture.

I don’t feel Big Dog is a dolgo seedling. I could be wrong. It is rootstock used decades back.

Eleven are out here currently.

Moonlight pictures are a bit hazy. I shook most of the fruit off of the Buckman Crab this afternoon. I still haven’t checked the tree outback. I also shook Golden Hornet, Red Splendor, and Dolgo (grafted).

This morning at 3:30 AM, two young bucks were sparring in the yard.

My back was hurting about 2 AM so I was up taking pictures of deer. They were eating asparagus tops, crab apples, and napping. I forgot to hit post a few days ago.

At 4 AM this morning they were napping at the edge of the yard.