JZarr; Sonds like it starting to warm up for the rut there, thats a shame about you losing all those photo' s in your camera.
I went out to my stand over a big draw that funnels to a thicket and bedding bottom last nigght. I wasnt there 30 min when a doe with 2 fawns come off the ridge and into the bedding bottom and the doe proceeds to run off one of the fawns, must of been a button buck.
I heard a loud grunt in the thicket and tried to call him in but he never appeared
At sunset I looked up the draw and there was a doe and then another deer a small very dark coated button buck then another doe with a doe fawn and a button buck.
They all were feeding on acorns in the draw and then I heard the smallest crunch of leaves slightly behind and to the left of me and I ever so slowly turned my head and there was the cutest little button buck standing on the ridge not 8 or 10 yards from me , he stared at the group of deer for a while and they stared back at him and then he decided to join them and trotted down to join them. Upon him joining them all the fawns came to greet him but the does just ignored them and kept on feeding. The smallest button of the bunch , the dark coated one goes to greet the new button and then I almost busted out laughing The dark coated smallest button bristles up his coat and lowers his head slightly and starts to do the stifflegged kinda side ways walk over to the new button. He was posturing just like a big ole buck. When he gets to the new button he stands on his hind legs and starts whacking the new button with his front legs and does it twice and the new button trotted a few feet away so the small dark coated button then proceeds to start rubbing a small sapling and the little bugger was just really trying to tear it up.... but he had nothing to tear it up with[]
I think it was the funniest thing I have ever seen in the woods[&:]
That was one aggressive little button buck, what a gas[&:]Just tto Funny!!!!!!!
Well they all ended up from 10 yards from me and the does stayed at 20 yards from me, I was hoping they would lure a buck up the draw to me but no such luck.
Then they wouldnt leave, I was stuck in the dark up my tree making owl calls, crow calls , coyote calls and they wouldnt leave, it was 30 to 40 min after dark so I finnaly tore off a big piece of bark and threw it and then they left. FINALLY.