The Sandbox

[sandbur]

During the night, a doe and two fawns worked the rootstock (Columbia) Crab by my house.

Two nights ago, my wife said a fawn spent an hour feeding under our Haralred .


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[sandbur]

I found two places with white spruce regeneration while I was thinning some spruce rows today. Deer beds were in some of the younger spruce stands, so I need to move some of these seedlings to new areas in the spring!

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Judging by the top of the spruce you dropped in the last photo it looks as though you are getting darn good growth each year on those spruce.

We had good rains the last few years and not much of a summer drought.


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[sandbur]

Nothing wrong with seedlings in my view. This one should have been in a single exclosure instead of a group pen.

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[sandbur]

More seedlings.

Two of those crabs had such a heavy fruit load three springs back that the trees started to tip over. I tried to pull them back.


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[sandbur]

Another seedling still holding crabs.

As you can see, I picked all I could reach for cider.

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[sandbur]

Morse bunches on the right and chestnut crab on the left were checked by Deer during the night.

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[Native Hunter]

Those are some fine looking crabs. The deer tracks in the snow tell the story....

 

[Bill]

That's a bunch of fruit for this time of year. Wish I caught the apple bug years ago...

 

[Bowsnbucks]

Great pix Art !! For seedling crabs, some of yours have big fruit on them. The deer sure seem to like stopping in to check all of them.

 

[sandbur]

Morse bunches on the right and chestnut crab on the left were checked by Deer during the night.

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This Morse bunches is also getting used.

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[sandbur]

Deer trail leading to one of my spruce pockets.

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[sandbur]

And this sidewalk ( as Steve Bartylla calls them) leads into an older spruce pocket of about 12 years age.

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[sandbur]

Two fawns like it in here.

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[sandbur]

The sidewalk continues on.

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[sandbur]

But adjacent to the sidewalk are some spruce that have been in the ground for 28 years. The deer still bed in them. It is hard to believe this was once on the edge of a field.

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[sandbur]

In the other direction, the sidewalk leads to a younger spruce bedding pocket, right after a few apple trees.

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[sandbur]

Another young spruce travel lane alongside a pond. In the background are the two pockets that had the Deer beds.

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[sandbur]

And a view to the left.

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[sandbur]

The sidewalk continues on.

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Both pheasants and partridge (grouse) we’re back on those sidewalks in the spruce.

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[sandbur]

The sidewalk continues on.

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Both pheasants and partridge (grouse) we’re back on those sidewalks in the spruce.

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