So what's the deal with the flurry of rubs and scrapes in the south wooded area near the house? Are they just traveling through and leaving an abundance of sign there for some reason?
It depends on there travel schedules. I have found deer beds in strange places, such as in an open field of grass with a dried up pond. Yep they curled up in the grass near the bank, I suppose to get out of winds crossing the 5 acre field.
My Grandpa has over 60 acres with maybe 1/3 of it house barn and fields and the rest is woods. Several deer bed down in an abandoned cattle field that is overgrown. At the edge of this field is a treeline that separates it from a bean field. The treeline runs into the woods. Keep studying and you'll learn your deer.
One year I was sitting on this corner and found out that about 2 hours (probably 3pm) after I left the neighbor saw that Big buck walking along that fencerow of trees. I think that was back in '04.