An apple a day....

Rich Witt (right) and Jim Brefeld

 I was speaking with Rich Witt at a party a few days ago where he was telling me about taking apples to deer that live in the Witt Trail area below the dam. During his morning bike rides he has noticed apples in yards and ditches going to waste. He decided to pick some up and take them to the trail for the deer. 
The first day he took some twenty gallon buckets of apples and dumped them by the trail. He said in no time deer started to appear and before long there were eleven deer feeding on the apples. It sounds like this has turned into quite a job, with him hauling buckets there daily and the deer garfing them down, leaving not a one.
The apples will be gone soon and there will be some very disappointed deer. They smell the apples when he brings them and now recognize him walking with the buckets. He tells me they come very close to him when feeding.