You can either just put out a few pounds of corn on the ground and soon as the deer eat it up, keep adding to the area or you can put out a feeder. If there are deer in the area they will soon find it. We have deer in our yard and in the green field back of the house all the time, day and night. They don't seen to pay any attention to the outside lights. They eat on the flowers and bushes next to the house all the time.