A couple pics from today

[Robert_in_NY]

Very nice Robert, thanks for posting!

Thanks, and your welcome

 

[scott_vt]

Good Evenin Robert,
I really enjoyed the pics of your daughter feeding the deer ! Very nice, thanks !

 

[czechsonofagun]

Love the pictures, especially the heron. We have few in our and neighbors pond and they are such elegant birds.

 

[Kernopelli]

Awesome pics. We have a large heron that comes regularly. He is always very skittish and hard to get close to though, I have never been able to get a good picture. This spring I was watching him and he was pulling up minnows and tiny fish every few minutes and all of the sudden he grabbed a crappie that was at the very least a 1/2lb. I told my wife there was no way he was going to eat it but he was persistent and after about 10 minutes he choked that sucker down.

The deer pics are great. Do you own a hunting preserve or breed to sell? I worked with a guy here in S.Illinois that breeds and owns a preserve. Looks like it can be quite a business. He is constantly traveling for seminars and hosting celebrity hunters. I can't believe the prices people will pay to kill a big buck, his website is Samson's Whitetail Mountain
Thanks for the pics!

 

[Cottonhawk]

Robert,
Nice pics. You must be an accomplished photographer.
It is amazing that you have your own deer eating out your daughter's hand.

 

[Robert_in_NY]

Robert,
Nice pics. You must be an accomplished photographer.
It is amazing that you have your own deer eating out your daughter's hand.

I don't know about the accomplished photographer comment but I do enjoy taking pictures and I try to buy quality equipment which makes a huge difference.

These deer were hand raised and this time of the year are huge babies. This one is a yearling and was one that Ava spent a lot of time with last year as a fawn (they are buddies)

And here is another of the bigger guy trying his best to get to Ava's corn

 

[Robert_in_NY]

Awesome pics. We have a large heron that comes regularly. He is always very skittish and hard to get close to though, I have never been able to get a good picture. This spring I was watching him and he was pulling up minnows and tiny fish every few minutes and all of the sudden he grabbed a crappie that was at the very least a 1/2lb. I told my wife there was no way he was going to eat it but he was persistent and after about 10 minutes he choked that sucker down.

The deer pics are great. Do you own a hunting preserve or breed to sell? I worked with a guy here in S.Illinois that breeds and owns a preserve. Looks like it can be quite a business. He is constantly traveling for seminars and hosting celebrity hunters. I can't believe the prices people will pay to kill a big buck, his website is Samson's Whitetail Mountain
Thanks for the pics!

We mainly have the deer as a hobby and have sold to others so they could start their own farms. A few have been sold off to preserves but we try to find other homes first and are selective as to which preserves we sell to.

 

[Flatheadyoungin]

cool photos.......these photos are the reason we want to get back to the country....

that hering reminded me of when i was about 12......we used to fish at the pond behind our house....it was up on a hill......one day i was walking up the dike and just as my head popped over and the pond came in to view, and i don't know whether i startled him more, or he startled me more, this HUGE bird took off and flew away.........i was so excited wanting to tell everyone......i thought i had discovered some extinct dinosaur bird or something......

he would come back every now and again, but he was always skiddish...

thanks for sharing!

 

[wjoerob]

A blue heron decided we had provided a smorgasbord in our little pond, very nice of us. Spent some change to stock it with small fish. Every time I would come home, pull up over the hill, Blue Heron would go flapping away over the trees, kinda lazy-like, usually with a small fish in his beak. I could almost hear him saying, "Thanks, I'll be back for lunch tomorrow!"

 

[weldingisfun]

A blue heron decided we had provided a smorgasbord in our little pond, very nice of us. Spent some change to stock it with small fish. Every time I would come home, pull up over the hill, Blue Heron would go flapping away over the trees, kinda lazy-like, usually with a small fish in his beak. I could almost hear him saying, "Thanks, I'll be back for lunch tomorrow!"

We had the same problem. Solved it by putting netting around and over the fish pond. Doesn't look real pretty but at least we still have fish to watch.