Well, they are mostly a threat to flowers and shrubs, but they are also host to deer ticks, which spread Lime disease. That has been a major health concern around here, and a lot of people I know have been affected -- by being infected.
My township hire hunters to thin our the local herd in the woods adjoining our property. A year and a half ago, one died in my back yard, right at those two cedars in my second image, after being hit by a bow hunter. Fortunately, the hunter tracked it down and removed the deer before my wive got home -- that would have been an unpleasant scene. On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Luiz Felipe <[email protected]> wrote: > Spent almost two weeks in the area one winter looong ago, mostly indoors in > bed... and found no deer around, only people - granted, some people are > strange indeed. :-) > > Other than that I kept to that wild and dangerous island nearby, patches of > NC, GA, FL, SC, NE and DF... and never staying as long as I'd like to. Well, > maybe next time. > > I have mixed feelings about animals in the backyard - wild ones in > particular, since some of those may present danger to children and a few are > dangerous even to grown ups. In a beach village where I used to stay in my > vacations we often encountered from snakes to stray dog packs - trouble. > Farther from the sea we had our share of yet more snakes, with neighbors and > other predators getting the blame for missing chickens and livestock. Glad > your visitors are a threat only to your flowers. > > LF -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
