Thread: opening day harvest ....pic heavy

was just a ton of pecans , the wildlife is sticking to the woods and wont come out in view much right now . the mast crop defies imagination this year and the ground is covered in acorns and pecans . my buds that hunted all saw diddly and hardly anyone ever even heard a gunshot in the areas they hunted .
we went to my place to put the black cylinder blind into its position again and completed the task and set up a bow blind over a deer only area I made a while back . then we decided it was important to become one with nature and collect some of the bounty . we stopped at around 40 lbs of pecans , being 20 is his bag and 20 in mine .
lots of snakes out and about right now in the sun when it warms and I warned him about copperheads several times as snakes often hang around rodent food sources ,ie acorns and pecans .
my bud down the road a few miles ran up on a monster copperhead the day before and sent me a photo of it ,so I told my friend careful where you put your hands amigo .so as if scripted we are digging around picking up pecans and I am taking them off the tree mostly and he is picking them up off the ground and all the sudden jumps about as high as a cloud and says SNAKE !
now mind you a quick glance confirmed it was in fact a snake and NOT a copperhead but instead a simply beautiful hognosed snake . man did it scare the daylights out of him .
we saw only one deer when we were leaving the place and she was in the deep woods .
I did get the cards out of the cameras and view the results and it seems the lack of deer sightings is in line with the increased predator sightings around the feeders as well .I did notice one pretty nice buck far back in the dark checking the feeder area for does as well .
hope you enjoy the photos and have a great day

thanks for the reads and comments yawl , the pecan crop is for sure heavy as are the sagging limbs on the trees , the hognose was about a find to be sure and I haven't seen one in so long I cant remember , and mister sneaky high hat best keep to the woods .
on a side note them little piggies sure look like one or 3 of them are food items