Last evening at bedtime I looked out and the big old buck was in one of the horse lots at a mineral block that is close to the security light. I know that he routinely jumps into that lot to clean up spilled grain, drink out of the trough and eat the salt. Last winter the deer were continually feeding off of the round bales stored close to the grove. Quite a few deer starved to death in this area due to the unusually hard winter so a number of them yarded up in the grove where they had ready access to the hay and grain we put out for them. Because the populations are down this year I hope that they will not issue doe permits in this county for the next few years.