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» Georgene A. Bramlage - Re: WOW! And Home on the Range...

In response to Re: WOW! And Home on the Range... posted by Schipperke:

Well, Traute and Mary...

I probably won't feed the deer...but I do get a chuckle everytime I go into or out of the house, or look out the windows and see all that churned up snow!

And so, Mary, you have bears come to your feeders also. I can't say I've ever had the pleasure but many friends have had their feeders - the expensive squirrel-proof ones - carried off. Apparently, there is a bear-proof feeder yet to be invented.

However...one very smart gray squireel has figured out how to access one of our feeders which hang from the roof overhang. He ate "gourmet" bird food for over an hour and would not budge at sight or me, my camera or the cat. I thought he would fall off, but he just curled up and made himself at home

Mary...the bulbs are definitely non-edible to deer and other varmits. A lot damage, however, is done when they dig up bulbs, find that they are not edible, and of course leave them on the soil surface to dry out.

We have quit planting Asiatic lilies because as my husband so nicely put it "The deer know where to come for desert!" They do not eat the bubls, but love the flowers and foliage. Of course if the foliage gets clipped often enough the bukb doesn't replenish food supplies and dies. For some reason, up to now, they've left the "Tiger Lilies" alone...these spring up in amny beds in the yard.

G.

-- posted by Georgene A. Bramlage