Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Just experiencing nature

January came with the first 2 days of the year finding me heading off to the woods. I get to my spot where I missed the nice 7 point earlier and after getting settled in for a full day, after about an hour I start hearing a horse. This went on for maybe another hour and I get up to run the horse off (which has gotten out of someones pasture). As I try to chase the horse off I step in doe poop. Deer poop is better than horse. I head back to my stand and just as I start to sit down. Have you ever felt like you were being watched? I got that feeling. As I look around my 7 point is standing 30 yards on my back trail, watching me. He WHISTLES and is gone again. That big boy was trailing me where I stepped in the doe poop. I now have a new technique, as I walk through the woods I will step in the deers droppings. Who knows it might work again. The more I see this buck the more I learn about him. His luck or my mistakes can't last for ever. I will get him.
The following day I only see a big doe followed by a spotted fawn. I didn't know they had babies with spots this late.
I use the time I spend in the woods as a quiet time. I read my Bible a just unwind . On the day I saw the doe and fawn, I'm relaxing and reading. I feel something touch my boot, I look and see a bird sitting on my boot. It amazes me what all I get to see and experience when I in the woods.