Backyard deer
08-13-2014, 08:43 AM
#1
Nontypical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 2,037
Backyard deer
Mostly I just get does and fawns coming into my yard. This mama and babies have really raised hell with the garden this year.
Sunday morning I looked out my bedroom window just as I was about to get up and saw these young and upcoming fellas back der.
Sunday morning I looked out my bedroom window just as I was about to get up and saw these young and upcoming fellas back der.
08-13-2014, 02:17 PM
#2
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 21,193
The deer herd was 40% wiped out I was told with last years harsh winter. The deep snow and bitter bitter cold just cleaned out the old and weak. For a herd already diminished because of poor management, it was kind of the final now. I have seen one doe in the yard all year. In past years 10-15 was much more common. But it is always nice to see deer around the house.
08-15-2014, 02:33 PM
#6
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 491
I have does in my yard every night. Thank goodness they dont care a hoot for tomato plants. When I was feeding them years ago my daughter's small dog would walk right thru them and go do his business. Those bucks have good starter racks on them. I have an office at BBT in Charlotte. After i parked there this morning I watched a fawn play like a crazy puppy for over 20 minutes. Great way to start a day at work.
08-15-2014, 06:02 PM
#9
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 21,193
I agree VTBone... the reason I left the city for a country home was so I could sit at my kitchen table and watch different animals. I have had the pleasure of watching deer, bear, grouse, squirrel, even a rabbit or two. Its kind of funny, one year I got so tuned into the different deer that when I saw one of them out in the woods on stand, I did not have the heart to shoot it.
08-17-2014, 08:08 AM
#10
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Hayes, Va.
Posts: 2,332
The deer herd was 40% wiped out I was told with last years harsh winter. The deep snow and bitter bitter cold just cleaned out the old and weak. For a herd already diminished because of poor management, it was kind of the final now. I have seen one doe in the yard all year. In past years 10-15 was much more common. But it is always nice to see deer around the house.