Deer Garden
We’ve got a smart deer hanging around. There’s a couple bucks here usualy, a four year old and a two pointer. The two pointer takes to the structure around the house and prefers to use the steps and boardwalk to get around rather than the ground when it’s time to go up or downhill. No problem, but all the boardwalks eventually lead to the garden and guess who has figured out a way to get in with even the gates closed.
After putting together the Lieben flyer for the Bowfest Festivities this weekend, Bernice and I walked out the door and there he was just having a fine munch. I checked the lower gate, it was closed, check the upper gate, it’s closed too so I lock it open and start shooing. Of course he goes for the lower gate, so I had to open that one and off he went.
About 6:30 this morning, I hear steps coming down the side of the house on the garden boardwalk and think it’s pretty early for someone to be doing some gardening. Not too early for our buck to have some breakfast though and he was happily munching on a big patch of morning glory. We’ve got way too much of that, so I let him go at it for a while before chasing him out. I started off with the gates closed and tried to herd him up the hill from where I heard him coming to see where he got in, but he went for the lower gate every time so don’t know how he does it.
The upper gate doesn’t lock, it operates on a spring that keeps it closed and from the outside of the garden you can push on it all day and it won’t open. There isn’t any footprints around the fence where he may have jumped, so maybe deer know how to pull?