Yep, that's what I have noticed to. I've even got a place in one of my fields (about 8 acres big) on the side of a hill that an 8 pointer is using to bed with a doe. It's nothing more than some waist high grass and a few thorn trees with a 5 acre patch of heavy mature cedars only 40 yards away. But that patch of cedars is home to a bunch of deer and I guess he feels safer keeping that doe away from the other deer. Anyway large (10 feet across) areas of flattened grass with deer dodo and heavily used trails leading to them is what I look for. Then I figure out which trails they are going to use to get to water and then I set up an ambush spot along that trail. The deer around here seem to want to get a drink as soon as they get up because it's been so dry here. I've gotten pretty close doing that.