Say hello to my "little" friend.

The Back 40 is back!  I had to take a short hiatus after Logan stole our camera and hid it in his toybox for a few weeks, and then I was starting school, and I've just been busy.  I've got some Bee news coming up in the next couple of weeks, but for right now, we're going to hit the wildlife side of The Back 40.  So here we go.

My food plot is starting to come in and looks fantastic.  It's Michigan Ultimate Blend which combines turnips and clover, along with some other brassica type seeds.  My father-in-law Bill has had some great luck with it over the last few years, and I'm hoping I'll have the same, although it can take deer a while to figure out that the turnips are there under the ground if they haven't run into them before.  So, with any luck they'll hit it hard this year, and I'll be able to hammer a nice buck in a month or so.

These are what's left of the stalks of some Pokeberry bushes.  They grow about 8 feet tall, and they're incredibly tough and woody.  These ones (and all of them within 20-30 feet of here) have been stripped bare and broken by bucks using them to rub their velvet off.  These have been pretty well decimated, so while it may not be a large buck, I'm hoping there's at least a lot of deer working them over.

This is more of the same.  The deer have been working them pretty hard all along what was a pretty solid scrape line last year, so I'm hoping we'll see some more of the same this year.

 

To wrap things up, I've got a few picture off of trail cameras below.

 

 

 

To come clean, that last one isn't from my trail camera.  But I'm fairly certain I got at least a couple hearts to skip beats there.  Bazinga.