Tried a bait pile

I was kind of ambivalent about using bait with the cam.  But then I thought about windfalls.  Usually the deer police most of them but not always.  And I have to figure that a pile of apples probably has at least a few worms.  If I get the deer to eat the apples won't that kill the worms ?  See, you can justify anything :)

So I tried baits for a couple of nights.  They found them the first night but left 3.  So I redeployed on Monday night - all were taken.  I think by a single deer, appears to be a fawn ?  Here's my attempt at stitching together the stills:

source: https://youtu.be/gd6jSkp1aWM

This reminded me of an episode of The Andy Griffith Show (season 1, episode 32) where Opie is banished from the courthouse after school because Aunt Bea thinks it's a bad influence.  So he goes wandering around, kicking a can down the road.  He encounters a kid eating apples on a pickup truck tailgate and trades him apples for the can.  Then he sets about eating those apples:

the guys shake on the trade

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apples in 1960 weren't as gigantic as the ones at the store these days

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Deer don't leave cores but a boy will

episode link on Pluto:  https://pluto.tv/us/shows/1550011/episode/60f5f9f80bb675001324c0a7/

A classic.  I suspect that that fawn will be nursing a tummy ache just like Opie:

Yes, Ron Howard does look a little like Alfred E. Neuman:

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Chuck, WB9KZY
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