Just north of old barns amongst cedar and live oak trees is a shaded area that holds water and is proving to be a popular hangout for butterflies.
Wildlife Management 2014
General parent category for land and wildlife management activities for 2014
Trail Camera setup
Clean, added new batteries and installed trail camera on western side of stock tank for monitoring of animals.
Supplemental Feeding – Aug 18
Cleaned out, checked sealing, filled in hole in base of feeder and added 150lbs milo seed for turkey.
Watering trees/shrubs – Aug 17
Watered 2014 and 2013 planted trees and shrubs – lack of rain and freezing winter have been tough on young plants but so far all are doing well with no losses to report.
Supplemental Water – Aug 17th
Filled up and cleaned out water feeders.
Cedar Removal – Aug 2014
Got to spend morning outside to cut down cedar trees. Trees cut down were between 6 inches and 7 feet in length. Managed to get a couple of hours in but the Texas sun got the better of me, Built a habitat shelter from longer cedar trees and filled...
Water Supplementation – March 2014
Fixed leak in tank and serviced water pans/floats. Gave white tank a thorough cleaning – required a soak in vinegar solution to remove all algae.
Water Pans – July 2014
Cleaned water pans and made sure water was filling pans.
Bird Feeders
Bird Feeding is tagging along although we have noticed that feed is lasting much longer than normal. I assume this is due to heavier than normal rainfall and their simply being more for the birds to feed on. Bird feeders are checked about every week and filled up as...
Rattler!
Haven’t seen many snakes this year but did come across this rattler – pretty cool!