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Arnomation
Citizen
Username: Arnomation
Post Number: 539
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 12:15 pm: | 
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We just saw a deer bounding through Maplecrest park from over by the tennis courts toward the baseball field with the outfield fence and toward Springfield Ave. I think it was probably freaked out and lost because I can't imagine where it might have come from to end up in Maplecrest. |
BGS
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Username: Bgs
Post Number: 1027
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 5:09 pm: |
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How sad that mankind is taking up all the space that the wild animals used to have...Mind you, I am not a protester etc...but with the poor bears in the last couple of weeks and the more visible presence of wild life here in town - it has to make you stop and think....
Hope that the deer made it back to wherever it came from safely!!!
Ciao!
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Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 14513
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 9:57 pm: |
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Maybe it got off the Springfield Ave bus coming from Newark.
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Morrisa da Silva
Citizen
Username: Mod
Post Number: 461
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 29, 2006 - 10:47 am: |
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We saw a dear on Tuscan Road near Valley St last night at about 11pm. Maybe he's trying to get back to the reservation......very slowly.
It's the first time I've seen a deer in this neck of the woods since I've been here (10 years). |
Joan
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Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 7523
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, May 29, 2006 - 4:21 pm: |
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Arnomation:
Last year there were reports of deer living near the Ward Homestead. The portion of Maplecrest Park you describe is very close to that location. Last summer, a neighbor told me that he had seen a fawn camped on my front lawn. I know the deer ate many of last year's roses from my side yard which is not far from the Valley and Tuscan location. Deer have become very common in Maplewood you can expect to find them almost anywhere in town. |
george H
Citizen
Username: Georgieboy
Post Number: 206
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Monday, May 29, 2006 - 5:44 pm: |
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I live on Prospect and see 1 or 2 most mornings in my yard.In fact, my wife just came in[430pm]and said she saw a fawn in our yard.A few years ago it was a wild turkey,dawn and dusk.I didnt think the woods behind my house were big enough to support deer fulltime and assumed they wandered down the mtn. |
Bob K
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Username: Bobk
Post Number: 11680
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - 6:21 pm: |
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Here is a link to the Millburn Item. They have a story indicating that the deer population this year is about half of what it was a year ago in SMR. I don't know if they starved during the winter, were decimated by coyotes and wild dogs or moved to Maplecrest Park.
http://www.theitemonline.com/ |
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