Wildlife Management 2014

General parent category for land and wildlife management activities for 2014

Fire Ant Control

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While Fire Ant control is pretty ongoing as we try poison when we stumble across mounds when walking the property we put in some time in May and July treating various mounds after the rains. Areas treated are around stock tank and then east and south of the old...

Sowing Seed – Jan/March

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January saw some serious effort in sowing of seed. Sections by Pecan Tree and Stock tank were mowed really low then I ran the disc harrow several times with criss-cross pattern. Discing was kept less than 2 inches to reduce bringing up dormant weeds. Area was left to settle...

March Strip Mowing

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I’ve been a little slack on updating blog so decided to try play catch up today – sadly the Internet is really quirky today so let’s see how it goes. With early rainfall this season the grass and weeds are doing really well and weed control is a balance...

Red Tailed Hawk

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We have been blessed with a several red tail hawk. I am not sure if we have two or three. We always see one on middle section of property and a pair down by Noleen’s pecan tree. I have never seen all three out at the same time. Here...

Stock tank fish

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Finally got to see schools of perch in our stock tank. We suspected we may have lost them all with last round of heavy rounds but were most pleased to see them – hope they enjoy the daily feed we throw in for them.

Pond level adjustment

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After the last round of heavy rain we lost a lot of fish due to pipe overflow. We have no added an elbow and filter in order to be able to adjust the level of pond and prevent fish being swept down pipe. The elbow can be rotated to...

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