Veg, glad to see you returned. Im also very happy that you decided to plant food. You already have the animals returning. Doesnt take them long does it?

Just so you know, you dont want to spook them too much or they will become nocturnal, (especially the bucks). They will get used to you if you spend time near the plot while they are feeding though, and eventually you will be able to get pretty close and take pics etc. I wouldnt roam through where they are bedding behind your yard though, or they wont show themselves much during daylight.

That loud blowing noise you heard was an alarm that deer use called a "snort". It accomplishes a few things; It alerts surrounding deer to danger. If the deer are unsure of what the danger is it also can scare the danger into revealing itself. Deer will also snort at each other when they can hear another deer, but not see it. Kind of like saying, "hey Im a deer over here, if you're a deer too, snort back" (but those snorts arent nearly as loud.)

The more time you spend around deer, the more noises you're going to learn. They have pretty complex vocal communications, and if you learn some of them, maybe you can impress your friends.

Fawns are being born now too, and you will soon hear them bleating to their mothers,(it almost sounds like a baby crying, bwaaaaahhh bwaaaaahh) and their mothers will bleat and grunt (grunt=almost like a pig grunts, sound like a girlie burp). These are locator calls, and content feeding calls.

Bucks also grunt, but its usually much deeper. Grunts vary, and can mean so many different things. From locator, to aggression.
Extremely Aggressive bucks will "grunt-snort-wheeze".
It sounds like a deep belch followed quickly by a brief snort and then a drawn out wheezing sound. This noise almost exclusively occurs during the breeding season, October-December (depending upon geographical location) (even later down south). It is usually right before two bucks try and kick each others butt for breeding rights.

There are more noises, and noises that we dont yet understand, but that should give you a slightly better understanding of the noises they make.

One last thing. Fawns (baby deer) are very VERY impressionable in thier first couple months of life. They are very curious, and may actually attach to you. Try to watch fawns from a distance and never try to approach them or befriend them. You may find fawns bedded alone, this is normal. The mother leaves them alone for their own safety, they have no scent, and predators cant locate them. As cute and adorable as they are, and I know its going to be tempting to try and bring them in close for a better look. Its just not whats best for the animal. It needs to imprint on its mother, and not you.

Seeing how you are very interested in wildlife, I guess my best advice to you would be to try and impact it as little as possible. Take out some books from your public or school library and read up on the animals you are watching. Who knows, maybe someday you will be a wildlife biologist.

Two great authors for learning about white-tail deer are;
Leonard Lee Rue III and Charles Alsheimer. If you get a chance to read their work, do so.

Have a good one---Matt