I have not had time to set move the blind I made a while back and set it up. My wife I am pretty sure what not happy with it being in the back yard for so long. So yesterday, I decided I would go clear some brush and set it up. I went back to where I wanted to put it and found, that I really did not need to clear any brush to set it up, but may later. I was going to cut a hole in some of the thick yaupon, then set the blind up in the hole I cut. But decided my best spot to set it up, was just in front of a clump of yaupon. I know the beauty berry will drop their leaves when winter comes and more of the blind will be exposed, oh well. I may move it back into some yaupon at some point, but for now, it works where it is.
We strapped the blind to a small single axle trailer, the blind was too big to connect the trailer to the four wheeler or the tongue of the trailer was too short, I keep saying I am going to lengthen the tongue of the trailer, so it's more useable. So we had to connect a chain between the four wheeler and trailer, to pull the trailer, up the hill. Then I had to get behind the blind, lift it and try to keep in level, then push it as we went up the hill. Our property is on the side of a big hill, it starts a ways before the base of the hill, then goes all the way to the top of the hill and over the top a ways. It was all up hill moving the blind. I was worn out yesterday.
After getting the blind stood up, we went back to the house, dropped off the four wheeler, rested a while, then got on the lawn mower, rode it to the feeder and cut some grass and weeds, in between the feeder and blind. Then back to the house, got a 17 HMR, back to the blind and climbed in, hoping some of our squirrels would show up. Well no squirrels in the two and a half hours I was in the blind. But within 15 minutes of being in the blind, a pregnant doe came out and ate for a while, then left. Then 15 to 20 minutes later, I could see a doe moving around up in the brush on the other side of the feeder. Then she came out with two other doe, all three were thin, so the doe that came out the first time, was not with the three later.
After all of that noise and movement they came out fairly quickly after I was done making noise. They all noticed the blind, the first doe, did not care much. The first doe to come out with the group, was focused on the blind for a while, then calmed down and went to eating.
I found out why I can get almost 8000 pictures in four days, from the camera pointing at the feeder. I have had the feeder set to go off at 7:00 AM and noon, I was trying to bring in turkey. I can tell the deer clean up the corn within 30 minutes of the feeder going off. But I have deer at the feeder all day, they are obviously eating corn. I can see corn on the ground through out the day, in the pictures. So I have been thinking the timer is somehow malfunctioning. I am sure of how I programmed it. Well after sitting in the blind for a while, knowing there was no corn on the ground. I saw a cardinal fly up to the feeder, to the spinner, then sling a good bit of corn on the ground and fly off. Well about every 15 minutes like clock work, that cardinal flies up and slings corn from the feeder, then flies off.. So he is keeping corn on the ground all day long. That's why I have deer at the feeder all day long.
There is a small clearing to the right side of the blind. Eventually, after I get the tractor working and get a root plow and disc. I am going to clear out and open up the clearing some. Then make it into a small food plot. There are is a big old post oak that is dead, that I want to cut down and take to someone with a saw mill and see how the wood looks. The post oak I have been splitting for fire wood, looks pretty nice. I think that old post oak, should have some good grain to the wood. Once I get it down and remove some yaupon, I can open up that clearing some more.
We strapped the blind to a small single axle trailer, the blind was too big to connect the trailer to the four wheeler or the tongue of the trailer was too short, I keep saying I am going to lengthen the tongue of the trailer, so it's more useable. So we had to connect a chain between the four wheeler and trailer, to pull the trailer, up the hill. Then I had to get behind the blind, lift it and try to keep in level, then push it as we went up the hill. Our property is on the side of a big hill, it starts a ways before the base of the hill, then goes all the way to the top of the hill and over the top a ways. It was all up hill moving the blind. I was worn out yesterday.
After getting the blind stood up, we went back to the house, dropped off the four wheeler, rested a while, then got on the lawn mower, rode it to the feeder and cut some grass and weeds, in between the feeder and blind. Then back to the house, got a 17 HMR, back to the blind and climbed in, hoping some of our squirrels would show up. Well no squirrels in the two and a half hours I was in the blind. But within 15 minutes of being in the blind, a pregnant doe came out and ate for a while, then left. Then 15 to 20 minutes later, I could see a doe moving around up in the brush on the other side of the feeder. Then she came out with two other doe, all three were thin, so the doe that came out the first time, was not with the three later.
After all of that noise and movement they came out fairly quickly after I was done making noise. They all noticed the blind, the first doe, did not care much. The first doe to come out with the group, was focused on the blind for a while, then calmed down and went to eating.
I found out why I can get almost 8000 pictures in four days, from the camera pointing at the feeder. I have had the feeder set to go off at 7:00 AM and noon, I was trying to bring in turkey. I can tell the deer clean up the corn within 30 minutes of the feeder going off. But I have deer at the feeder all day, they are obviously eating corn. I can see corn on the ground through out the day, in the pictures. So I have been thinking the timer is somehow malfunctioning. I am sure of how I programmed it. Well after sitting in the blind for a while, knowing there was no corn on the ground. I saw a cardinal fly up to the feeder, to the spinner, then sling a good bit of corn on the ground and fly off. Well about every 15 minutes like clock work, that cardinal flies up and slings corn from the feeder, then flies off.. So he is keeping corn on the ground all day long. That's why I have deer at the feeder all day long.
There is a small clearing to the right side of the blind. Eventually, after I get the tractor working and get a root plow and disc. I am going to clear out and open up the clearing some. Then make it into a small food plot. There are is a big old post oak that is dead, that I want to cut down and take to someone with a saw mill and see how the wood looks. The post oak I have been splitting for fire wood, looks pretty nice. I think that old post oak, should have some good grain to the wood. Once I get it down and remove some yaupon, I can open up that clearing some more.
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