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Strange times….south of Natchez

Posted on 10/20/23 at 6:51 pm
Posted by Fencepimp
Brusly
Member since Jun 2022
203 posts
Posted on 10/20/23 at 6:51 pm
The drought was an eye opener. Does sleeping in grass in the lake. Browse eaten down like never before. Salt licks never touched until late September. Riding through the woods and not eating spider webs. No Chantrelles to be found. Oaks are barren. Bucks not scared by vehicles. No Egrets chasing bushogs. Anyone else seeing the unusual?
Posted by bayouteche
The Beaches of Wham
Member since Nov 2012
1137 posts
Posted on 10/20/23 at 6:54 pm to
Damn baw…

That scenario is making my Dixieland Delight CD skip!
Posted by TheDrunkenTigah
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2011
17315 posts
Posted on 10/20/23 at 7:17 pm to
We had noticeably less fawns on camera late summer, and now have had hogs show up for the first time with any consistency. Multiple groups at the same time, prettymuch out of nowhere. We can’t keep 350lb feeders from going empty in less than a week even where the hogs aren’t helping, and until it goes empty there are shooter bucks in daylight later into bow then we typically see them.
Posted by HomerRudd
Columbia, LA.
Member since Oct 2013
19 posts
Posted on 10/20/23 at 8:56 pm to
Yesterday around 11:00 am I flushed a nice eagle on the side of southbound US 61 just north of Woodville. He was sitting in the grass, close to the shoulder. I was on my motorcycle, headed to Baton Rouge. That was the closest sighting for me. White head, white tail, and white ankle socks.
Posted by MrCoachKlein
Member since Sep 2010
10302 posts
Posted on 10/20/23 at 9:10 pm to
Deer Park river area needed a breather. Seen some hammers in the undergrowth but the old growth will obviously be missed. I feel like the river knows what’s she’s doing though
Posted by calcotron
Member since Nov 2007
8251 posts
Posted on 10/20/23 at 9:15 pm to
Posted by skidry
Member since Jul 2009
3260 posts
Posted on 10/20/23 at 9:21 pm to
I have 10-20 roseate spoonbills in my back yard pond in Madisonville every night this week.

Never been that close to one in my life. I’ve only been living here a couple years so maybe it’s not so rare but I thought they stayed close to the coast.
Posted by dstone12
Texan
Member since Jan 2007
30143 posts
Posted on 10/20/23 at 11:12 pm to
I crushed the bluefish on the shore at Cape Hatteras today.

6 over 27 inches on cut mulllet. That doesn’t happen often for me.

This post was edited on 10/20/23 at 11:15 pm
Posted by Koolazzkat
Behind the Tupelo gum tree
Member since May 2021
1698 posts
Posted on 10/21/23 at 6:27 am to
Damn El Niño!
As long as death doesn’t show up with a sword and riding a pale horse, we’ll be okay.
Posted by AlxTgr
Kyre Banorg
Member since Oct 2003
81616 posts
Posted on 10/21/23 at 6:32 am to
Fewest orb weavers I have ever seen. In one area I frequent, there are none at all. Also seems like no one is posting about yellow jackets. We usually get a how to kill thread by now.
Posted by Twenty 49
Shreveport
Member since Jun 2014
18749 posts
Posted on 10/21/23 at 6:41 am to
quote:

Oaks are barren.


Live oaks near me are dropping acorns by the bushel.
Posted by Loup
Ferriday
Member since Apr 2019
11253 posts
Posted on 10/21/23 at 6:57 am to
Where I hunt is usually pretty swampy and a maze to get back to. It's all bone dry right now, first time in ~12 years I've seen that.

No fat at all on a doe I shot last Friday. Plenty of acorns dropping though.
Posted by The Levee
Bat Country
Member since Feb 2006
10690 posts
Posted on 10/21/23 at 7:06 am to
It’s definitely El Niño.

Seems like everything in the woods is browning and dry. Dying. Pine trees dying of thirst. Not bugs as much as thirst.
Posted by cgrand
HAMMOND
Member since Oct 2009
38728 posts
Posted on 10/21/23 at 8:58 am to
went all summer here in Hammond without a mosquito
Posted by SeaPickle
Thibodaux
Member since May 2011
3132 posts
Posted on 10/21/23 at 11:12 am to
I'm sitting in Natchez after hog hunting a little further north last night. I do crop protection from Woodville to Port Gibson and all the way to I55. We are killing record numbers of hogs in the crop fields. 20-30 hog nights.

There is no natural feed in the woods. Deer and hogs are living in these crop fields even more so than usual. Crop fields and deer feeders will get hit hard this year.
This post was edited on 10/21/23 at 11:15 am
Posted by Bayouboogaloocrew
Dixie
Member since Jul 2013
3107 posts
Posted on 10/21/23 at 1:21 pm to
quote:

went all summer here in Hammond without a mosquito


Not on my side of Hammond
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