Chomping Away

[thphm]

This morning while making coffee i looked out the window and there was a doe picking apples of of one of the older trees,she went around the whole tree grabbing whatever she could and chewed them up.It is a little early here in the Catskills I would think.

[growalot]

Our son has an apple tree that the deer have been hitting since June...one doe brings her little twins to it every day...and the have made the ground around it look like an over used paddock.....those apples don't even ripen until the middle of Sept.....Hhmmm Well maybe it's like when as kids we all liked sweet-tarts or sour patch kids...lol

[thphm]

I was looking out the kitchen window this morning and the deer came from the property across from mine,mom and here 2 young ones and her sister who I think lost her young one a few days after it was born ( been talk of someone near by hitting one while cutting hay ) Anyway mom goes up to the apple tree picks off some apples and drops them on the ground and the young one started chomping them up.Then they went over to the tree tops that I just cut down and were eating them.The apples here are just starting to get a reddish tint to them.

[Five Seasons]

they've been hammering my trees since June as well.

[Doc]

I haven't figured out who the culprit was, but one of my peach trees had peach pits laying all over the ground underneath. Deer? .... Could have been. the branches where bent down so much that they could have reached them. Could have been coons, squirrels, and possums too. It does point up the fact that every year it is going to be a race with the critters to get to them first....lol.

[GreeneHunter]

The deer have been hitting my Peach and Apple trees for about 2 weeks now !

[randy4]

hows the wild apple crop look this year   last year was a bust