Oh my, thats ugly. I'd be livid.

I don't have any deer damage but there is a woodpecker attacking our house. I kept hearing that unmistakeable peck peck peck (only a woodpecker makes that exact sound) while sitting upstairs here at my computer and went outside to take a look.

There he was, cute as a button pecking away in earnest on the stucco way way way up high, close to the top on the two story part of the house. Tall ladder stuff.

I kept spraying him with the hose with the nozzle set on high, he didn't like that and would fly off. Anyway, a few days later I heard him for the umpteenth time while I was working in the garden, went around there to give him the hose, I couldn't see him but then while I was looking he stuck his little head (hello) out of a little hole he'd made in the house, obviously he's made a home up there. You got to be kidding me.

I googled to see if this happens to other people, not often but they will do it if they find a spot they like.

He is no longer as cute. Now we have to climb up, plug the hole and since there is a light up there, we plan to hang a noisy wind chime to it and maybe a wind sock. I googled and read that works most of the time, but not always. They don't like movement and noise. I also read they sometime peck all the way through to the inside walls and into the house, that their nesting area can get quite large and once they find a spot, they stick with it, creatures of habit.

Of course, if all attempts fail we get out the gun. Its too bad, he really is cute.

Dang deer yanked

A friend of mine hangs wind chimes made of cd and dvds off the eves of his house to scare them. Time to cage that tree.

OOOOOPs, Bossyvossy , Past time to cage that tree. That does hurt.

so far so good with the deer damage this season everything we have is either coated weekly with liquid fence or wrapped in cages but still intact

I need to do some caging.

I've heard that once they injure a plant it is never injured or disturbed again. Based on my observations it seems to me that this is true. It simply slipped my mind to cage this one. I figured it was too late to cage it but I did hang a garlic stake on the solitary branch,

I found this deer mangled 5 gallon sized agave tossed out on the road one year , and brought it home. It is getting to be a beautiful specimen. They are vulnerable at this size. They seem to leave them mostly alone once they are larger. And the small agaves don't seem to get it either

Question for BV, will a different deer damage the same plant.

Would seem logical that new deer would nibble but I do not see new wounds on previously attached plants, that is, survivors.

I am amazed at the violence that these deer must use to reduce an agave to this state. I have never ever seen one actually doing it in process. I try to picture the battle . I am glad that they have never threatened me with their horns. It is rutting season . I can hear them laughing in the bushes.

You all have my empathy! Those are some nasty injuries.

I have a firespike in a big pot that gets trimmed over and over. I assume deer since the damage is waist height or 3+ feet from the ground, but it recovers much faster than a tree or an agave.

What puzzles me is why do they come in my yard to clean their horns of velvet on my ornamentals when they have acres and acres of brush and small trees all around on which to do it?

They just like you, Ragna.

Laughing! Well, the feeling is not mutual! There were three deer in my front yard last night and they would not go away even though I hollered at them and stamped my feet. I threw a rock at them and they ran over to the rock! This is no doubt because many of the people around here feed them, they actually buy day old tortillas and bread, so naturally the deer thought I was going to feed them ... :-(

I bet they have not a green twig in their gardens.

Deer tore up a smoke tree I have in the front. I'll share pics

"I've heard that once they injure a plant it is never injured or disturbed again. Based on my observations it seems to me that this is true."

Not my experience. I had an Arizona cypress that deer would vandalize annually. a large juniper shrub out front has gotten a few visits. they seem to like stuff in the fragile, juvenile, sapling type stage.

we have no deer. I would probably feed them if we did.

I feel I feel your pain! I have 15 deer on my property nearly every day. Anything of value outside of my back yard is fenced. They've destroyed trees, agave, cacti, bottlebrush, bay trees, brahea palms, foqueria, leather stem plants, pineapple guava, Arizona cypress and then they eat the blooms off cacti and rainlillies! I'm ready to shoot!

Looked out my front window this morning and saw a big buck walking up my sidewalk. They've already horned everything worth (to them) horning, so he didn't find anything to vandalize and went on his way.

There's just way too many deer in Texas. And ten times more deer in the U.S. than 300 years ago.

I wonder how they figure that there are 10 times more than 300 years ago. I think we all should do our duty and eat more venison.