Hi again Dan, people forget about us snowbound ones often.

The deer in the area cannot be doing too well, though its still a little early to tell. Even with all the snow, and many days below zero, most of the deer you see look relatively well. Unfortunately, you see them feeding along the sides of road, in people' s yards eating any bush they can find, a freind even had one on his deck, licking the grill, and it did not leave when he turned the lights on and watched it for 1/2 hour.!! Alot are getting hit by cars.

This all points to deer that are near starved, and its still nearly 2 months to green up here - so some will not make it, others will make it till May only to die when food begins to become plentiful, does will likely absorb more fetuses than normal, and others will be born malnurished.

Such is the cycle in the North, and even though many of us take alot of does, our populations are still very high to withstand a winter like this year.

That said, the deer on our property will have hopefully benefited from the food plots we' ve put in. Even though our area is a yarding area, many of those deer left for lower ground over a month ago, where browse is generally thicker. Still I' d guess we have 20-30 deer living in our 20 acre hemlock woods right now. I' ve stayed out for forcing them out into deep snow, where the coyotes have had a field day, we found three already taken. They stopped digging in the corn almost a month ago, any ears still above the snow, are long gone. The deer are in some danger from coyotes, digging to get any ears under 3-4 ft of snow. I went into the hemlocks this Sunday for the 1st time since December - it was 60 degrees here. The snow is still3-4 ft in most places. I found 1 dead deer in " the yard" but it was under so much snow that I couldn' t tell much about how it died: I' m sure I' ll find others - hopefully not too many more. If the current warmth keeps up, we should lose the bulk of the snow by Mid April - which is not much different than normal.

Take Care -