reply to post by olliemc84
No wild or free roaming turkeys are in my immediate area as far as I know. We have an agricultural reserve near me but the only birds that seem to be
thriving right now are hawks and eagles. There have even been Bald Eagle sightings! There are no game birds nearby that I know of. The controlled
hunts have helped. Last summer and this summer I was able to have a few flowering plants and tomatoes in my yard and that is the first time that's
happened out of the whole 7 years I've lived here.
I've warned the kids in my neighborhood but they don't pay any heed nor do their parents. My dad has contracted Lyme disease and my own kid ended
up covered in deer ticks in our front yard when we had a picnic on the lawn. Fortunately I saw them right away and got them off of her. We got her
tested and she came up negative. I'm the only holdout who won't let my lawn service do pesticide or herbicide application so I suppose i deserve to
have the tick problem but if the respiratory irritation I get when my neighbors spray is any indication, I'll take my chance with the ticks. Fungus
overgrowth has been so bad the past couple of years and so have the mosquitoes, spray or no spray, we end up spending our outdoor time on the pavement
anyway.
When I first saw the pics of this deer in this thread I first thought of some kind of fungus. My battles with fungus infiltrating my house, all my
plants and even my aquarium have been unbelievable. I've never seen anything like it in the long years my dad and I collectively have been in the
hobby.


Sad. 