Yahoo aerial of my property........
 

Here is mine. The pink spots are stands that are already existing. The green outlined spots are the foodplots that are already in for this year (you can read more about those in the wildlife management forum). The yellow outlined spots are the plots for next year that are going in. Obviously the orange line is the property boundry.

This last weekend after working all day on the food plots, I spent a good bit of time glassing the fields in the evenings. I was able to spot a very good 3-4 year old buck in the southwest corner of the property right where you see that foodplot that is planned for next year. I also saw an OK looking 2 year old there as well as multiple does and fawns. We have always seen a lot of deer entering the field there, that island in the middle of the field provides good cover, and those dots in the field just to the west of it are apple trees.........they love those. This is also a hot spot for rutting action, as we commonly see bucks run does out into the field there. Problem there is wind, only once it a while is it working in your favor there.

On the north east corner of the property, you can see that other field. I was able to spot 3 bucks there this weekend on both Saturday and Sunday evenings. 1 of them may have been a 3 year old that was already close to 100" or so, a bit wider and about as tall as his ears. The other was a small basket rack 8 pointer, and the other was probably a small yearling 6 pointer or so. Lots of does out there as well.

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Great pic...how did you get it??

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how'd you mark the map up?? Thx

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Yahoo maps much better than google earth!

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http://maps.yahoo.com/beta

This is the link to this mapping site.

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don't mean to ask again, but how did you mark up the map? thx

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I hit the print screen button, then hold control key down and hit C key to cut the image. Then I opened MS Paint and held control P to paste the saved image into paint. Once there I just used MS paint to mark the map.

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I would like to give a big thank you to Rick James for this info!! Alot of people have posted stuff on here for free aerial pics but am always disapointed when I look at my house and see my neighbors house that was built fifteen years ago is not their. Google earth, microsoft, and all the others that are free and have been on here all are missing the fifteen year old house! A big thanks for an updated pic. At my hunting spot the farmer had an old barn that he burnt down in the summer of 2004 and it not their! Sorry for running on but what good are maps that are 15-20 years old? Thanks rick!

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Rick thanks for the great site, but I'm having trouble moving it to MS paint. I don't find the "print screen button". I only find "printable version" button at the top of the map area. In the yahoo window I go to "file...print" and it goes to my printer control window. Can you help?

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print screen button is on your keyboard. [8D]

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this might work once you hit the printable version tab, try holding the control key and hitting the print screen button on your keyboard, then open up paint andpaste it into the program, you might have to crop the image some but thisshouldwork.there may be another way that is easier, just make sure you only have the window with the map up, because using the control+print screen basically takes a snapshot of your computer screen. hope this helps.

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Okay guys. I guess I'm pretty stupid about this. I can hit the print screen button on the keyboard and get stuff to paste into my paint but as living1512 has said, it is a snapshot of the entire screen. Even when I went to printable version, I get the smaller printable version window with the main map window behind it.
How do I get the map only on my screen?

Sorry formy stupidity.

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Once you get the whole screen shot pasted into paint, then you use crop tool. This is the button in paint that has a dotted line rectangle box on it. drag and surround only the map part of the screen shot image and then hit control X to cut. Then close that pic window in paint, and open a new blank pic in paint and hit control V to past the cropped image in. Then use the paintbrush/pen tool to put in your property boundaries, tree stands, etc.

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In paint there should be an icon on the left that is basically a rectangle of dashed lines (think its called select), anyways click this and then starting in the upper left corner of the map on the screen align the rectangle so it covering the map only and then release your mouse button (effectively selecting the desire image from the screen)nowhold thecontrol key and hit the v to cut the image then open a new window in paint and paste the image, you may have to enlarge the image to take up the full screen, but this accomplished my clicking the image and then dragging a corner to increase to the desired size. Hope this makes sense.

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thanks for the help and Rick, thanks for the site!

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wow thats a neat picture very cool.

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here are three spots that I am going to try and hunt this fall....I would love to have the abundance of trees that you guys have but its all farm land here in Ford and Livingston IL....If any of you guys have some tips for where I should setup then please let me know...right now I got my trail camera out on spot1 but have seen nothing yet...

this is spot 1!


this is spot2


this is the area just 1 mile east of spot 2
if i could only be lucky enough to own that land!!
my spots are outlined in RED sorry if its too faint

any tips????

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Thats prettyneat! I think I may have to try that with my properties that I hunt!

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Awesome pic's thanks for sharing.