Our field bordering Station Street looks like a football game was played in the snow. Instead of a nice white expanse, the entire field is roughed up and full of holes. A herd of deer did that. Our neighbor who farms the field planted daikon radishes in the fall as a cover crop. The deer had been eating the tops before the snow.
Now they are back, digging down through 14 inches of snow with hooves that aren’t really made for digging. Desperation and starvation are driving them to improvise.
While I feel slightly sorry for them, it is obvious that Pennsylvania, or at least our area of Pennsylvania, has way too many deer. Our coyotes are not really capable of pulling down a full grown whitetail. We really need the reintroduction of wolves–or cougars. I’m not picky.
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