Feeding

It is spring! and the snow is melted! It is also Turkey Season! On the way back in form a great morning in the woods - the elk are hungry and the meadows are blooming!

Neat pic Mike nice heard of Elk. Everything around here is getting ready to have babies or already has them, seen a Red Fox cross the road the other morning carrying a pup in her mouth. Birds are building nests like crazy.

Kinda wish we had Elk here in VA. They were here in colonial times, but didn't survive long...
I have a mallard duck sitting on a nest of eight eggs in my wife's rose bed next to my house. I cut off the longer roses an mulch them in December for the winter. This is the second wild duck nest we have had in over 30 years on my place. The first nest was raided, by some varmit that sucked every egg, lots of skunk an possums about. So far she has been left alone. I haven't mowed the yard there yet, so she can have her clutch an move off to the neighbors pond. They hopefully will hatch this thursday after 28 days incubation. Just have to watch the neighbors cats till they make it to the pond.