I sat in one of my ladder stands last evening right up until dark. I wanted to see what kind of activity there might be around that stand before archery season starts next month. Most of the trees in that area are either red oak, chestnut oak or cherry. The stand is about 15 yards to the side of my powerline and in a red oak which is about 75 yards from the edge of my neighbor's field. I lost count of how many deer were around me, mostly because it got too dark to see the farther out ones and some of the others were right under me so I didn't want to use my binoculars too much and have the motion spook any of them. They eventually filtered out and into the field. I know there were at least twelve and two of them were legal bucks. The last to leave were two fawns that stayed out on the powerline crunching acorns. It was kind of comical because mama had to come back from the field and get them.