Saw a deer in Patchogue yesterday... (Hempstead, Port Washington: restaurant, club, yard)

[Johninwestbury]

Originally Posted by I_Love_LI_but

None near me. Hope it stays that way. Don't need the deer ticks they bring with the lyme disease. I know two people who don't even live in Suffolk who got lyme disease out there.

Actually the deer ticks main host is the white footed mouse, and mice are everywhere. The infected tick bites mouse, then another deer tick bites the mouse and thats how the bacteria are spread. The mice dont get sick from the bacteria, but humans do. Fortunate for the cute little things. Awwww

[alexei27]

Brookhaven National Lab has something like 3000 deer. They are everywhere here in the forest. There are apparently white deer, but I have yet to see one.

[KellyFG]

Originally Posted by alexei27

Brookhaven National Lab has something like 3000 deer. They are everywhere here in the forest. There are apparently white deer, but I have yet to see one.

I've never seen the white deer up here, but I did see one at the brookhaven dump a few years ago.


Yesterday there were two deer running across my property at around 8am. I see wild turkeys everyday, I've also been seeing red fox. We hike every weekend in Brookhaven state park, which borders my neighborhood so we see all of the good stuff

[PONYPULR]

A year or so ago, there was an 8 point buck(4 on each antler, right?) on my farm here in Holtsville. I'm surrounded by quarter-acre suburbia and the LIE and Nichols Rd., so I don't know how he got here. He hung out for a few days, grazing in the paddocks, drinking from the horses' water troughs and jumping from pen to pen. Then gone. It was pretty neat!!

[click]

Live in Patchogue, and we had a red fox in our yard a couple of years back just walking through! Our daughter said, "dad there is a fox in the yard!" We said, "no, that isn't possible" and then checked and sure enough there he was!

[Gue]

That fox better stay away from all the chickens everyone is going to get!

[noupf]

I'm really surprised how many people are in awe of seeing deer on long island. They inhabit the entire island, literally. Obviously not so much in high density polulation areas, but beleive me, they are everywhere.

Oh, and I saw a white deer about two years ago on the side of the LIE out near brookhaven lab.......freakiest thing I have ever seen.

[alexei27]

Originally Posted by noupf

I'm really surprised how many people are in awe of seeing deer on long island. They inhabit the entire island, literally. Obviously not so much in high density polulation areas, but beleive me, they are everywhere.

Oh, and I saw a white deer about two years ago on the side of the LIE out near brookhaven lab.......freakiest thing I have ever seen.

Yeah I'm still looking for one...

[Peggy3181]

I live in East Moriches and see deer all the time! I've actually seen white deer recently. One was at night, it ran in front of my car and my daughter and I both look at each other like we'd seen something strange. Then a few weeks back..saw 5 more. This time during the day. They were grazing on someones lawn, two little ones under a tree, the adults out in the open. Two other cars stopped to look as well, so I know I wasn't seeing things!

[Walter Greenspan]

Originally Posted by Gue

I was surprised to walk out of Chase Bank on Harris St ...

While I'm a little late to this thread, according to the Census Bureau's online address search function, located at 472 Medford Avenue (between Harris Street and Everett Street), that Chase Bank is in North Patchogue ("Patchogue, NY11772" mailing address).