Offseason rolls on with all things S. La outdoors:
Friday made it out on the marsh near where we hunt in St. Bernard parish and gathered up some redfish for the grill:
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Kept our limits and headed on in.
Sunday made it up to the fields for some more work at the lil camp, solo with Harry along for the ride. Did some cleaning around the camp, scrubbing years of mildew and algae off and did a fair bit of tree and shrub trimming all around the structure. Also cleared an area for where we plan to build a cleaning station along small bayou.
No mice, rats, birds, bees or wasps inside camp, but multiple LARGE snake skins up in the eaves.
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Also found one in the flesh hiding in a contractor bag full of snow dekes......that slithery sound in the bag when you nudge it.....yeaa that was fun. Resisted the initial urge to just set the bag ablaze and just took my time rooting him out. Turned out to be a chicken snake in the 3 ft range.
Propped open the lids on the blind for an inspection for critters and accumulated water. No water, but plenty of creepy crawlers including THREE black widows on the lids alone. Didn't go rooting around down inside the pit to see if others were around.
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No teal initially seen but ended up seeing quite a few that were in front the blind and stuck around all day even after I'd bump them up riding around on breaks.
I'm going to go out on a limb and assume we're not the only crew in S. Louisiana trying to keep snakes out of a camp or barn, would love to hear any recommendations on doing just that. I do understand that the snakes are a likely key to the lack of rodents, but would rather be without either one.
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