ChiefEW

I spread bird feed and corn on the ground for the deer and turkey. The bird baths are great for the deer, turkey and road runners. I put a lid of water out for the rabbits. It gets hot in Texas and the rabbits visit the lid quite often.

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jdtonkinson Loc: Red Wing, MN

Great captures and great ideas

Diane58

Awesome 👍

Quixdraw Loc: x

Good stuff! Check with your Conservation District, out here they have special watering containers available specifically for birds and small mammals.

ChiefEW

Thank you. I will give them a call. I did not mention that the turkey keep the snakes away. Copper Heads and Rattlesnakes are everywhere.

Cwilson341 Loc: Central Florida

Excellent shots. Providing water is just as important as food for wildlife, maybe even more so.

nimbushopper Loc: Tampa, FL

blacks2 Loc: SF. Bay area

Excellent.

willard3 Loc: In the Bajío, Méjico

I like nos 1 and 4 a lot. I love toikeys

olemikey Loc: 6 mile creek, Spacecoast Florida

Fabulous!! Great captures too, and enjoyed the narrative. Wife and I do the same with feed and water (especially when my ponds go dry during spring droughts, or when water table falls to low). The only issue we have run into with the water is besides the squirels/deer/turkey/otters/young wild hogs/many bird species/raccoons/oppossums/snakes (mostly harmless varieties), we are getting bobcats and coyotes and a neighbor claims to have seen a Fl. Panther recently (not yet on my game trail/game camera though) and another saw a bear down the road just outside the Buck Lake Preserve WMA.

This (putting water out) has led to the loss of two of my cats (one attack captured on the game camera) via coyotes. Now that we have rain again the ponds are coming back, and the wild things that run the game trails won't have to rely on my ponds or water containers like they do when dry.

Interesting to me is that all the bobcat and coyote game camera videos show them as daylight only intruders....makes sense though, no squirrels to take at night, turkeys in the trees, deer are just plain fast! When we are in the yard they (bobcats/coyotes) are often less than 100' away, and we never see them! Since we feed them, we have the fattest/finest looking squirrels in the area, so bobcat/coyotes know where to look! Do also have several pregnant deer - waiting to see the youngsters!

This time of year, my several cats stay very close to the house - they know they are on the menu!!!

jimvanells Loc: Augusta, GA

Excellent work, both with the camera and wildlife.

ChiefEW

Thanks for the replies. All those shots, except the rabbit, were taken through the bedroom window

tcthome Loc: NJ

A lot of dinners you have there. Nice phots.

Hereford Loc: Palm Coast, FL

What a great set -- and you lured a Road Runner into the yard.

J-SPEIGHT Loc: Akron, Ohio

Nice set