Jane and I drove up to the hunting property quite early in the morning on the 4th. I put out our flag, and we headed off. We had trails cut into the woods, and were delivering 2 fifty pound salt blocks along paths for the deer. It was going to shower when we got there and the mosquitos were the worst that I have ever seen.
I wheelbarrowed the blocks 750 feet back into the timber to place them. Does and fawns use the salt blocks and then bucks start following the does. Food plots work, but something as simple as their working their way to a $6 salt block can result in a permanent path that they routinely travel along--the DNR told me that.
Right by where I placed the one salt block west of the main deer stand, we discovered a pink wild flower. Jane took pictures of it with her camera and we later identified as a Twinflower, a small evergreen flower with two bell-shaped pink flowers with white trim. Pretty and fragrant it is known to be. Our wildflower book claims these Twinflowers range in the northern part of the state, so Mora must be the southern edge of that.
The yard looks sharp with things smoothed out, the grass growing, the yard freshly mowed and the old house gone. We heard ovenbirds, song sparrows, chestnut-sided warbers and yellow warblers. There are lots of song birds on this property.
The rain, the pending heat and the mosquitoes drove us out of there after a couple of hours, but it is always refreshing and fascinating to leave the city to explore this alternative, natural world.
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