I know that deer come out to the fields when the snow first leaves, but as I said, I was seeing virtually no (as in zero) deer ALL last fall at any time, day or night. Also, virtually NO deer in woods, even for guys I talked to that were baiting during hunting season. Now, all of sudden we have all these deer?

Now there were some deer around a year ago too, but not like this. Maybe see one or two. One thing I did last winter was cut a bunch of popples and left the tops for browse - so that might explain the deer in my 40. But not all the others that I see all over the place. Another thing that happened a year ago was the freak blizzard in late April - perhaps this pushed a lot of deer out. We had close to 2 ft of snow on April 19th.