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August 25th, 2004 at 8:44 am
From Linn: Wow!! Beauty like that cannot be found in the city here.
August 26th, 2004 at 11:43 pm
Hey Linn!
This field is in beets this year - and you can’t see the trail. But when it’s in grain - after a while you can start to see the trail that heads to the river. Been there way before our time - and will probably be there long after…
August 29th, 2004 at 1:35 pm
That is a neat picture. Our fields have new trails in them from the deer that live in the corn and head out to the river. I noticed the corn maze in the paper the other day and wondered what our field near the river looks like from on top. When we cut it, we will find whole “rooms” big areas where they have it all knocked down and just live there. This particular field is right on the river where there is plenty of brush, etc. for cover. They prefer corn.
August 29th, 2004 at 3:49 pm
Hey Anonymous! Yes, we have deer colonies, too. Even worse are when the elk move in… The cows are bad enough, but when the bull elk congregate - they really make a mess.
August 29th, 2004 at 9:07 pm
I can only imagine elk in herds in a corn field. One time a herd of angus came across the river and into the corn and that was a mess. We have a few moose in our drainage and a bear now and then but I haven’t seen any elk. bonnie (sometimes I forget to sign.) Blonde?
August 30th, 2004 at 7:47 am
Hi Blonde Bonnie!
We all have our moments - my hair was frosted for so long, the bleach went to my brain.
I’m glad that we didn’t put any corn in this year (other than my sweet corn for the bandits)… We have plenty of deer, but haven’t had the elk like the last few years. They do exactly what you said - build rooms through the fields. Last year the bulls rooted the beet fields like pigs. Once one would urinate, all the others had to check it out and start pawing and digging. Which made for some bouncy tractor driving.
August 30th, 2004 at 2:08 pm
Karen, I love your blog! Speaking of critters digging up sugar beets reminded me of the beaver. They had a dam in the river close to the beet field. They dug beets and took them completely away! I think they had most of an acre before it was time for us to dig! They made slides where they took them back into the river. We weren’t smart enought to trap them and after a few nights of watching for them, the troops opted for sleep. As you know, it was expensive to loose that many beets but it was almost funny, too. Eventually we won, blew up the dam and they moved on.
Last couple of years, ducks have moved in on the silage piled near the river. Not a few ducks but the whole pile covered in ducks. The silage is going next to the new feed lot this year so the ducks are going to have to look for it! bonnie