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Weekend miscellany: Part Three
Our backyard had an uninvited guest this weekend — a white-tailed deer.
Sorry to say, the deer is not my favorite animal these days because of its close association with deer ticks and Lyme disease, its appetite for forests’ under-stories, and its inability to avoid automobiles.
The Celery Farm’s deer population is not as large as it once was — perhaps because of coyotes.
Nonetheless, when I see a deer these days, I don’t think "neat animal."
I think: "Be sure to wear insect spray when you go to the Celery Farm."
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Oh no!
“Killing deer to eradicate Lyme disease is comparable to killing humans to eradicate E. coli.” -
It seems like the population may be growing. So far, in the past few weeks, I’ve seen a mini-herd of 4 (3 does and a buck)in the Green Way meadow and another big buck near the butterfly garden.
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Pedro
Oh no!
“Killing deer to eradicate Lyme disease is comparable to killing humans to eradicate E. coli.”
Tom Burr
It seems like the population may be growing. So far, in the past few weeks, I’ve seen a mini-herd of 4 (3 does and a buck)in the Green Way meadow and another big buck near the butterfly garden.