Hungry

Here is an example of a fenced enclosure surrounding a municipal gravel pit.  In an habitat holding only 4 deers per km2 like in the Outaouais region, look at the grazing difference between the inside and the outside of the fence… deer eats a lot and this is the reason of the positive effects of a food plot.   

Louis 

False scrape

It’s time to go and make some false scrapes in your hunting areas, either along an old trail or in a transition area between two habitats.  If there’s a buck in the vicinity, he’ll come and investigate the bare ground and he’ll remember.  He will be back a few times early in the fall and you will therefore increase your chances with a good sexual lure.   

Have a good day.  Louis.   

Divers

Here is a picture that I took at the Corosol islands at Sept-Iles.  The black-legged kittiwakes are small replica’s of the seagulls but they nest in colony of many thousands of individuals and the biggest one is at the Seagull’s Cliff on the north-east of Anticosti.  These birds, unlike the seagulls, may dive a few meters to catch fish.  Have a good day.  Louis.

    

I’m late

Here is what I’m going to do this morning, start a bear bait.  

Louis

Servicing

A lot of people think that once done, a food plot doesn’t require servicing.  If nothing is done, weeds will slowly take control without you noticing it.  For the clover fields, there is a pesticide for grass but once again, the environmental question arises and it might become disturbing.

Mechanically, by cutting your clover once or twice during the year and by having sowed a greater ratio of seeds per acre, you will go further without the environmental risks.  Furthermore, cutting your clover has a stimulative effect on the plant which reacts positively by growing more rapidly, more densely and with more proteins, which is beneficial to deers.   

Have a good day.  Louis   

Change of habitat

Here is an example of a rapid food plot.  For many years, we had beavers.  I trapped them, ask for a license and opened the dam.  We cleaned the most we could do and sowed Whitetail Imperial’s clover after sprinkling some granular lime to raise the ph.  You get a small and interesting field that is inexpensive.  

 Have a good day, Louis 

 

Male or female

Some might think, by looking at this picture, that it’s a female lecturing his male because he is coming back to the nest without food.  I don’t really know but I can tell you that the puffin is a colored specie and it is not only in his plumage… You can spend many hours observing them and there’s always action.  I think that I was the one to take this picture but it might also be my spouse.  Have a good day.  Louis