Sounds like a great place data!!! With that many white oaks, you should see lots of deer. Remember tho, the acorns only last a short while. Honeysuckle is an excellent idea!! We have it running rampant here, and the deer always help us out in the winter months by feeding on it. Another that they seem to like is called Privy Hedge (sp). Folks used to plant it between houses to offer some privacy. It tends to spread pretty fast and can become a nusiance. We see the browse line every year where they feed on it.

I don't know how your laws are on baiting, but I feed my deer corn and dog chow in the hard months of winter after season is over. I saw an advertisement on the Outdoor Channel for some kind of corn that you can buy to feed deer that has extra vitamins and nutrients in it. Also guarantees no alpha toxins that tend to give deer diarrhea. I am hoping to see that ad again and write the info down.

If you have any bare spots that get minmal sun, plant some clovers....The soil takes alot of lime for clover and if you can get a good stand started (the deer eat mine up before it matures, meaning I need to work on some does), but has done great here in other areas where they control the population better than I do.

I would also suggest getting some mineral licks.....they LOVE them and they last a long time.

Good luck if you plan on having a garden!![&:] I have decided that I just plant mine for the deer!! Only thing I DO get that they don't eat is okra and maters....[]

Good luck!!!! and Congrats on a new home that sounds like paradise!!!!