In a message dated 22/12/2005 12:41:35 GMT Standard Time,
Edmund.Hopkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.gov.uk writes:
Bill's ambivalence is far more honest than the simple certainties of most
of
our urban voters. Your account of deer across the pond is very like the UK
situation where deer numbers are rising very rapidly.
I was surveying an old hospital site in Rothwell (Leeds) a few years ago and
disturbed a Roe (I think) Deer in the middle of an overgrown lawn it was huge
and while it was more scared of me than I was of it I have to say it scared
the life out of me for a few seconds until I realised what it was. SOmeone
told
me there's quite a large herd in that bit of semi-urban Leeds. I mean it says
something if they're colonising a derelict hospital....
On the subject but off it if you know what I mean; did anybody see that
recent BBC TV documentary "Taxidermists, Stuff the World." It was deeply
weird,
They showed a Yank survivalist sort of guy teaching his 9 year old daughter
to
shoot a White Tailed Deer. After butchering and skinning it (where it lay)
the
9 year old stuffed it and took it to the taxidermy world championships.....
This was one of those couldn't not look documentaries. The survivalist type
probably was a latent 'Branch Davidian' but was actually far more in touch
with
the realities of omniverousness than me, he was also very knowledgeable on
the
life cycle of the Deer and certainly ate everything they shot.
Weird. Look out for the repeat. The logic of dressing your nine year old in
head to toe camouflage gear then putting a hi-vis vest on her escaped me
though.....
Bill.
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