Shed,
Our deer migrate a little different. I think the bucks and does use the same areas, maybe adjacent though, during both summer and winter. The bucks have a little bit bigger home range than the does-especially breeding. With the cold and deep snow we get, the deer migrate 5-15 miles to their yarding areas. There, the deer stay together, but the bucks use more of the fringe areas and stay quite well fed because of the higher browse they can reach. When the winter is over the deer return. Some biologist think that yearling buck dispersal is greater in our area because of the large movement patterns already associated with our deer herd. One problem is that if there is a big die-off in one area of the deer yard, that can effect a very large area of a summer range, because individual family units migrate together, and stay in the same traditional yards year after year, together. Unless another summer range becomes overcrowded, it takes years for a summer range to be re-established after a winter die off of resident deer.

This year the deer are still around-very unusual. They are still trying to find food on my food plots, and seem to be going back and forth on the migration trails and all most unsure of what to do because of our unseasonabley warm weather. I'm sure I get pictures of the same deer during the migration, but many bucks have already lost their antlers, and many bucks are already shot. They also probably move at night when it's really cold and my camera isn't working !! I could go on and on, but...

Jeff...U.P. of Michigan.