Overheard in town: Oh deer!

Photo by Virgil Hervey

From a reader:

You can learn a lot listening in on the street conversations around town. The bench in front of the Emporium is a prime location for swapping stories and telling tall tales.

The other day I heard someone talking about a “wildlife corridor”. Evidently the purpose of these corridors is to promote the free movement of roaming animal populations from one habitat region to another.

This fellow was proposing that the over abundant deer population in Yellow Springs could be solved if we just had a couple of wildlife corridors to allow the deer to move to another habitat area. When challenged on where the corridors would go he was pretty much of the mind that “who cares, just out of the Village and my gardens”.

Turns out this guy was throwing sunflower seeds and hosta leaves out of his car windows every time he drove over to Beavercreek hoping the deer will follow the food trail. He swears there are now more deer sightings in Beavercreek and was encouraging his coffee buddies to help out. Maybe the next wildlife corridor can lead over to Fairborn - they seem to have some nice gardens that need to be trimmed.

And by the way, if you want to help build the next wildlife corridor you can buy your sunflower seeds at the Glen Helen birdseed sale on October 17th. Glen Helen Association members get a 20% discount on sale day.

Now if I just had one of those seed spreaders for the back of the truck...

Editor's note: I think we already have a wildlife corridor and it runs through my backyard. (see photo)