Lets talk about deer bedding. When deer bed down after feeing in the night, they often stay in or near feeding areas, I've seen them right in an alfalfa patch. But, they often bed in areas with brush or saplings, along fence lines etc, depending on the weather. Nice weather - open area beds, bad weather - beds in heavier cover or at least the downwind side of hills or woods, to get out of the wind. Around the middle of the night they might get up to feed a bit, defecate, urinate, stretch and possibly move to another bedding site. Then they lay down until early morning.
THEN - Once the sun comes up, they often filter their way back to their daytime core areas, which are in secure areas, often in the woods, sometimes feeding along the way. So - those are the deer we often see moving around on morning hunts.
Once they get back to their daytime core areas, they rest until about midday, when they may get up to stretch, grab a couple of bites, urinate, defecate, and within an hour, lay back down again until the evening when they get up to feed in more open areas.
I've watched the wild deer on our farm do this as they bedded near the edge of the grove around our house. I could sit in the downstaris bathroom window, and watch them all night long. Sit on the throne, reading a paper and doing deer resaerch. LOL
I could sit in the living room or my office and watch the deer come out to feed in the evening, and watch some of them bed during the day along the wooded creek behind the house. One deer used the same tree to bed under on several different days, and about 11:30 or so she would get up, walkaaroudn stretch, and bed again within about 30 yards of where she started. Then in the late afternoon she'd go otu into the field to feed with the other deer.
I can sit right wehre I am now, and watch a small meadow in the woods behind our house, and tell you exaclty what time of day the does and fawns arrive in the meadow in the afternoon, and when they come back through it in the very early morning. I hve videos of the deer and coyotes on You Tube. Look for Naturpro.
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God bless,
T.R.