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  1. dahmer

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    Our usual morning visitors. We’ve had up to 52 here. The 12 long beards haven’t shown up yet.
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    Nice thing is when they are on the hoof they don't take up so much freezer space. I wish we had some of them around.
     
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    Deer and turkey are so common I generally forget to take a photo but this guy got my attention last fall
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    That would get my attention too. A few weeks ago the neighbors were coming home at night and “thought” my black German Shepard ran across the road in front of them. She started to call me when the “dog” stopped at the edge of the woods, it was a black bear. Needless to say I was going out to try and put a leash on it.
     
  5. T.Jeff Veal

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    This little buck was hanging out in the driveway. We have 3 does in the yard regularly.
     

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    One of my game camera pictures in my little woods. Perfect stance for a picture! Thanks Wiley.
     
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    Little fella enjoying some peas/oats cover crop in one of my "fields" I plant sweet corn in.
     
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    Not wild life haha, but Picture I took walking near my house of the neighbor's horse boarding place.

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    Bald Eagle by my place.
     
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    A very cool LARGE Deere in a field by me. I like these ones the best.
     
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    I like them better when they look like this. My biggest ever, 53 lbs.
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    That's a big'un.
     
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    Very nice! I like the vintage picture too. I want to get a wall mounted coyote for my house badly! It would look awesome. I have a very rustic old rural schoolhouse I live in.
     
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    That pic is 20-25 years old.
     
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    Sitting at the picnic table this morning watching the smoker and these guys came to visit. 3 more in the woods that were too nervous to come down. They’re only 20’ behind the smoker and I’m only 10’ from the smoker. E68A28BD-9310-4655-9D39-9AFE1F895EC5.jpeg
     
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    Not actually backyard but only 2 miles from the house.
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    The local turkeys have been roosting in the trees out back here. I have a video of them up on the peak of the barn roof and flying to higher branches. One evening it was 3 hens and about a dozen poults that are bigger than grown chickens now. They had to be about 50' up in the trees.
     
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    This guy was checking out my porky trap the other day.
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    They were coming for breakfast, wondering what was on the smoker
     
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    Has a good deer viewing day Wednesday. 7AM that morning, I see this fellow feeding around our old chicken pen and broader. He is probably 40-50 yards from the house 0729200657c.jpg
    That evening while I was running the splitter, my wife and grandson were sitting on the golf cart, probably 20 ft from me, this little guy walked up to the fig tree, no more than 20-25 yds from us 0729201935.jpg I walk up to the woodshed in the picture and take his picture again 0729201938.jpg