Habitat Happening: Live Blog!
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flatlander
Buck Fawn
man those are some sweet trail cam photo's there partner
flatlander
Buck Fawn
Where are you getting all these great photos? Do you have any others ?
SD51555
5 year old buck +
These have already been posted. Also putting them here to keep them in the timeline.
Here they are...
Some thoughts:
*I wonder if they skipped the buffer because the pH levels were good where they were?
*Is it possible to have zero hydrogen in the soil?
The plot we started last year.
The expansion of the plot above
The new plot to the north
Here they are...
Some thoughts:
*I wonder if they skipped the buffer because the pH levels were good where they were?
*Is it possible to have zero hydrogen in the soil?
The plot we started last year.
The expansion of the plot above
The new plot to the north
flatlander
Buck Fawn
What is all this crazy calcium/zinc/nitrate stuff? I thought this was a hunting habitat form? Geez
SD51555
5 year old buck +
Picture time... Got up north a few hours ago, got suited up and grabbed the laptop to go pull cards.
Little bone starting to show. This is a new cam site. I have to have a talk with my cam installer on how to properly set the date and time on the cameras. You absolutely cannot find good help these days.
More bone. Too early to tell if we're seeing the same I suppose.
"What the hell is this?" Reminds me of that spanish ibex youtube video.
Some wide bases starting to form here.
Little bone starting to show. This is a new cam site. I have to have a talk with my cam installer on how to properly set the date and time on the cameras. You absolutely cannot find good help these days.
More bone. Too early to tell if we're seeing the same I suppose.
"What the hell is this?" Reminds me of that spanish ibex youtube video.
Some wide bases starting to form here.
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SD51555
5 year old buck +
Note the time stamps. Two hours after we were out there spreading lime and screwing around, the deer were right back in there eating.
Something is growing on this does face. I'm not sure what to make of it, but I feel bad for this critter. There is a close up below this one. Any ideas what this is?
Almost looks like she's covered in ticks?
Kicked this one out of the plot. The next pic is me showing up two minutes later...
If you look closely, it looks like the cam caught a grouse flying through in the middle of the frame.
Something is growing on this does face. I'm not sure what to make of it, but I feel bad for this critter. There is a close up below this one. Any ideas what this is?
Almost looks like she's covered in ticks?
Kicked this one out of the plot. The next pic is me showing up two minutes later...
If you look closely, it looks like the cam caught a grouse flying through in the middle of the frame.
Jim Timber
5 year old buck +
I put a trail camera aimed down my new swamp road to see how long it takes critters to start using it. With the aspen I cut at the trail head, I'm pretty sure they're going to find it sooner than later.
Very cool pics. Thanks for sharing them!
Very cool pics. Thanks for sharing them!
Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
SD - Don't you wish you could freeze-frame a grouse like that while looking down a smooth-bore ?? Great pic !! My pattern of 7 1/2's would be right around the diagonally leaning trees to the right in the pic !!:oops: :(
SD51555
5 year old buck +
If you've been following along, you've seen far too many pictures of the same old food plot. Well it got a makeover this week. We rented a skid loader again and got to work. We were able to get rid every stump in the way of progress. All in I would guess we blasted 40-50 stumps out. We also got our new plot areas scraped clean. We ran the bucket over them to sheer any brush we could and expose stumps and rocks. We then went over by hand and removed as much brush as we could.
So lets see some pictures:
This is one of the black spruces we planted this spring. It's already putting out all kinds of little spurs. I'm not sure how much these will produce in the first year, but it's interesting to see them on the move.
Another one of my winter burnt spruces from last year. I'm finding less and less that actually died. This is a welcome sign. I wonder if these that burned off their lower needles will grow taller faster due to reduced greenery where they were burnt.
We finally connected all the trails on our property. This one along the east line was probably the most important given we almost always have some sort of west wind that prohibited us from getting into most of our property to hunt. Now we can march right down the east line in silence.
Here's the start of the stump pulling...
So lets see some pictures:
This is one of the black spruces we planted this spring. It's already putting out all kinds of little spurs. I'm not sure how much these will produce in the first year, but it's interesting to see them on the move.
Another one of my winter burnt spruces from last year. I'm finding less and less that actually died. This is a welcome sign. I wonder if these that burned off their lower needles will grow taller faster due to reduced greenery where they were burnt.
We finally connected all the trails on our property. This one along the east line was probably the most important given we almost always have some sort of west wind that prohibited us from getting into most of our property to hunt. Now we can march right down the east line in silence.
Here's the start of the stump pulling...
SD51555
5 year old buck +
This was the biggest prize. I suspect it was a red oak. It was actually two stumps that were tangled together. We had to go down 2 feet all the way around the get it to budge. In the end we got it out.
This was a wild card plot area we pushed clean. It's going to take some work yet. Odds are I won't do a soil sample given that the samples are coming in all the same from around the property. This will need a few bags of lime and some chainsaw work. This will end up being some kind of spray and pray fall plot. I'd like to maybe leave this one in clover after this fall. Maybe rye/brassica/clover?
Another new plot. Scraped and cleaned up. Will also start as a spray and pray this year.
Same plot different angle.
This was a wild card plot area we pushed clean. It's going to take some work yet. Odds are I won't do a soil sample given that the samples are coming in all the same from around the property. This will need a few bags of lime and some chainsaw work. This will end up being some kind of spray and pray fall plot. I'd like to maybe leave this one in clover after this fall. Maybe rye/brassica/clover?
Another new plot. Scraped and cleaned up. Will also start as a spray and pray this year.
Same plot different angle.
