bushanic

I am in Eastern Va Richmond County. The area has plenty of woods and Ag fields. With the snow that came in on Thursday I went out Saturday Morning to get some more time in the woods to really see how the deer move threw the area. I had and idea of where the deer bedding area might be or at least where they past threw to get to it. I found a lot of beds but not in the areas that I thought.

I found beds that were very clean no snow at all. kind of like the deer was laying there when the snow started and left when it stopped with other beds around it that you could tell the snow had been melted down to the leaves and then refroze. maybe they came back to the same area for a second night.

I feel these beds where doe beds by the size and how many there were.

Or could a bigger deer have melted all the snow down with the littler deer not being able to melt it all the way.

As I try to improve my knowledge of deer and how they use the woods around them this bedding thing has me scratching head. I am archery only so getting close is the key.

will deer bed where ever they feel like it or do they have a core area? Maybe these deer felt they could not make it to there core area and just found the best spots. (I have not jump any deer in these spots but I could have and not know They could have seen me before I got there.)

What is your thoughts?