Around here at night anyway the deer bed down in the field of the food source they are eating. Often see deer or beds in the middle of a hay field. i did see a doe walk up to a bed and smell it then lay in it.In the bad weather there bed choices of course is in the thick cover. During the daylight hours they seem to have a general area to bed all the time. The stranges place I seen a deer bedded down was under a homes pool deck