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FEEDING NATURES WILD CREATURES!!! Perched about 12 feet above the ground in his accustomed chosen spot, the rare winter bright sun framed his jet back heaving chest to a state of pure perfection. A rich glossy coat so healthy and well preamed from the nutrients of his human induced winter diet, he celebrated his male birthright of proud maturity in ageless tradition! I quickly turned the volume off from my daily Dan Patrick TV sports show in wonderment of hearing his CROW CALLS through the glass of my living room picture windows. Only silence accompanied his heaving chest HOW PROUD I FELT KNOWING MY EFFECTS OF CARING HAD CREATED THIS WONDERFUL SCENE BOTH PROMPTED AND SCRIPTED BY MOTHER NATURE HERSELF. NOT A FEATHER OUT OF PLACE OR RUFFLED BY THE CRUEL UNFORGIVING EVENTS OF HARSH WINTER TIMES NOW UPON HIM AND HIS SMALL FOUR MEMBER FLOCK UNITED IN THE TOUGHEST TIMES FOR SURVIVAL. BELOW AND SLIGHTLY IN FRONT OF HIM ON A JUST SHOVELED STRIP OF GROUND PERHAPS SIX FEET WIDE AND SOME 15 FEET LONG, STOOD A HUMAN CREATED VALLEY CHANNEL WITH THREE FOOT OF HARD SNOW BARRIERS FROM MY SNOWBLOWER ON BOTH SIDES. PARTS OF THE LAWN APPEARED IN SPARSE SPOTS AS CONTRAST TO THE WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD MINUS ONE PLOWED STREET JUST BEYOND MY SPLIT RAIL CEDAR COUNTRY STYLE FENCE. IT MUST APPEAR TO THEM SKYWARD SIDE MUCH LIKE A AIRPORT LANDING STRIP BUT WITH THE DIFFERENT FOREIGN COLORS OF MY MORSELS INSTEAD OF THE BLUE LIGHTS, YET A CLEAR SIGNAL THAT ALL WAS SAFE TO LAND AND THE FREE SNACK BAR WAS OPEN FOR DAYTIME BUSINESS. THIS 11 AM EVENT WAS FOLLOWING FOUR DAYS OF HIGH CRUEL WINDS AND THREE DIFFERENT SNOWFALLS ALL IN BLIZZARD LIKE TEMPO. YES HIGH HARSH FRIZID ARCTIC TYPE GUESTS OF WINDS ON THE VERGE OF GAIL FORCE. MY BUDDIES WERE HUNGRY WITH THEIR BATTERES OF LIFE RUN DOWN AND IN MUCH NEED OF BEING RECHARGED. ENGERY USED TO COMBAT THE CRUEL ELEMENTS WAS CRITICAL AT SUCH TIME OF JUNCTURE AS LIKE A HOSPITAL DIETITIAN, MY MENU HAD BEEN WELL PLANNED THIS FINE SUN SHINY TUESDAY MORNING. FROM MY SUPER BOWL FEAST OF ROAST BEEF, CORN BEEF, FRESH DANISH HAM AND PROVOLINE CHEESE. I SELECTED EACH AND SOON FINELY DICED TO MAKE CONSUMPTION SWIFT, EASY AND EFFECTIVE FOR ALL FOUR OF THEM. ALSO THREE LARGE SLICES OF WHOLE WHEAT BREAD AGAIN DICES ALONG WITH FOUR SLICES OF WHITE HIGH GLOUTON WHITE BREAD AS WELL. AS ALWAYS MY HAND BROKEN PIECES OF ANIMAL CRACKERS TO OFFER THEM SOMETHING HARD TO CHEW OR TAKE LONGER TO DIGEST. I HAD LEARNED THEY EAT AND COME BACK IN 60 TO 90 MINUTE CYCLES WHEN DIGESTIVE JUICES SIGNAL THEIR ALERT BRAINS. THEIR IS AGAIN MORE ROOM IN THEIR TUMMIES TO STORE MORE OF THESE WELCOMED AND NEEDED MORSELS. WITH CRANBERRIES AND RAIDINS ADDED AS A SPECIAL BONUS OF RICH HIGH STARCH SUGAR, THE TABLE WAS SET. SUCH JOY TO SIT BACK AND WATCH NOT HUMANS BUT GODS TRUE INTENDED CREATURES LIVE LIFE OUT OF NECESSITY. FOR WHAT PURPOSE MATTERED NOT TO ME.... THIS WAS LIFE.............I WAS PART OF IT.. SO PROUD I WAS, SO PROUD I AM TO BE ABLE TO HAVE SUCH A WONDERFUL DISTANT FRIEND THAT UNDERSTANDS AND SHARES WITH LOVE. THEY ATE WELL AND WITH NO SNOW PREDICTED FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS, THIS BREAK IN NATURES CRUEL WINTER IS MOST NEEDED AND APPRECIATED. THEY HAVE ENOUGH FOOD TO LAST UNTIL FRIDAY MORNING NOW. OH I ALMOST FORGOT TO MENTION.....................TEN MINUTES BEFORE THIS FEAST UNFOLDED. TWO OF THEM LANDED IN MY FRONT YARD TREE AND PERCHED FACING MY WINDOW. FOR TEN MINUTES I WAITED AND WATCHED, THEY JUST SAT FACING MY WINDOW WITH ME PERHAPS FIVE FEET BEHIND IT SITTING............. THEN THEY FLEW AWAY ACROSS THE STREET AND NEIGHBORS YARD TO PERCH ATOP THE TALL HARDWOODS.... THEY HAD COME TO TELL ME THEY WERE HUNGRY, THEY DID NOT TRY TO LAND IN THE FOOT HIGH SNOW TO BLINDLY PECK ..THEY INSTEAD CAME TO ME. A BONDING HAD TAKEN PLACE. ONE I HAD SO STRONGLY HOPED AND WAITED FOR SINCE LAST OCT..............THEY MADE ME UNDERSTAND..........AS IN PAJAMA BOTTOMS, I WENT OUT AND SHOVED THOSE ALLIES I HAD MENTIONED EARLIER IN THIS EMAIL.. THE PATH WAS SET AND THE TABLE WAS SERVED.IN MINUS 5 BELOW TEMPS. FIVE MINUTES AFTER GOING INSIDE, THEIR LANDING TOOK PLACE........THERE WERE FOUR AND I REALIZED THAT THEY WERE PART OF THE BIG FLOCK THAT HAD SPLIT UP AND SPREAD OUT ALL AROUND AND IN LITTLETON........ONLY SO MUCH FEED COULD SUBSTAIN THEM AND THUS THIS WAS MY SMALL GROUP.. SOMETIMES EVERY THREE OR FOUR DAYS, OTHERS MIGHT SHOW UP FOR BRIEF PERIODS. YES THAT MAJESTIC INTELLIGENT ANIMAL WAS PERHAPS THANKING ME FOR HIS AND HIS BROTHERS BOUNTY OF LIFE. I SIMPLY WAS JOY STRUCK.! FROM THOSE HUMBLE BEGINNINGS, EVOLVED WONDERFUL GROWTH AS A FULL REGIMENT OF WILD CREATURES NOW MAKE ALMOST DAILY VISITS. MOST TIMES THEY ALL SHARE PRETTY MUCH EQUALLY MY NOW VERY LARGE MENU OF FEED. HIGH IN SUGAR, SALT CALCIUM, VITAMINS AND MINERALS. MOST TAKE TO THE WIDE VARIETY OF NUTS I ALWAYS GENEROUSLY SPRINKLE AROUND I A WIDELY SPACED FEEDING CIRCLE. i HAVE CHOSEN THESE WILD ANIMALS INSTEAD OF HAVING A DUE TO ME PASSING BEFORE HIM. THEY SHALL ALL LIVE MUCH LONGER DUE TO NOT HAVING TO FORAGE FOR FEED AND THE ENERGY SPENT IN DOING SUCH. ALSO THEY GET FED DAILY AND NEVER GO HUNGRY OR STARVE. MOST COME WITHIN SCANT FEET OF ME AS I SIT ON MY FRONT STEPS AND VIEW THEM. SUCH IS LIFE! Dan M 03561 
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Once back in my very younger days, I hunted within a pried circle of close friends. Yet like most things, time brought change as I began using nature as my stage to put to good use my Sony 10mm camera
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Within a short period of time, my views and feelings greatly changed through spending countless hours out in their domain, I realized they like us have values in life along with a degree of hardship. All creatures need the same three things iin order to survive in the wild.....Those being .Food, Shelter and Safety!
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In a place called Long Island located in Moultonborough, NH, lived a herd of some 120 almost domesticated deer. Trapped on the island for the most part, they feed on the rich landowners flowers and gardens after a rich tradition was ended. For decades paraplegic's in wheelchairs were allowed by special permit to have one weekend to hunt them. The reasons for this was to balance the herds size and unchecked, they would all starve to death as feed for 120 wold not support 240 of them if allowed to go unchecked, Thus the balance of nature worked quite effectively. That herd survived, the crippled hunts had their special day with all harvested deer, usually around 40 to 45 each year. We butchered as about a ton of meat was donated to many different children's orphanages around the state. For only five dollars i would purchase in a bakery thrift store a full shopping cart of so called day old bread and pastries Along with crack corn sold in grain and feed stores, every other week throughout the long harsh winter on Lake lake Winnipesaukee, many of us would take a day for a long ride of sightseeing and almost feed the deer that would come within 10 to 15 feet of us. PS they loved the English muffins the best.
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