Deer Movement Questions
09-17-2015 | 09:16 AM
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Spike
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Deer Movement Questions
Hi guys, so in July/August I put out some bags of corn and a couple cameras to see what I had out there. I got close to 2000 pictures in 1 week and 2 really nice deer. Most of the pictures were from these two bucks. I have a feeder set up and will get a bunch of pictures but every two weeks or so the two deer will show up. I guess I'm wondering why these two deer stopped showing up so frequently. I'm new to hunting and don't have a reason why they would stop showing up unless someone else has a better food source for them! I know I can't control when the deer show up and how frequently, just wondering if you guys would have any thoughts since they hit the corn so hard in July/August when there was plenty of greens for them to eat then. Thanks
09-17-2015 | 09:37 AM
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Boone & Crockett
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From: south eastern PA
Deer movement changes as do the seasons. Deer do not follow the same movement all year long, when the doe starting to come into estrus the buck will change again.
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09-17-2015 | 11:40 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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From: VA.
Most likely the change in the photoperiod. The summer solstice-longest day-occurred around June 21st and daylight has gradually diminished afterwords. This seasonal change has caused changes in deer behavior leading to less frequent sightings.
https://www.qdma.com/articles/what-t...-whitetail-rut .
See Photoperiod is the trigger.
https://www.qdma.com/articles/what-t...-whitetail-rut .
See Photoperiod is the trigger.
09-17-2015 | 12:49 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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Just something to add to the other reasons, is when the weather starts to get cooler and the days get shorter Deer get serious about eating. The longer the nights the longer they browse and graze, it is more a quantity thing than a quality thing. Nature telling them to eat as much as possible and pack on as much fat as possible for the rut and winter.
Your Corn may not be as interesting as say 30-40 lbs. of good forage.
You don't have any Badgers around do you? They can get protective about feeders and claim them. And tend to fight off all comers. I watched a Mother Badger with two almost grown pups back down a Sounder of around 8 Hogs. It looked like the Hogs had a go around with Badgers before and wanted nothing to do with them.
Maybe the Yotes or even a Cougar or Bear has been leaving sign (marking) around there. You won't find many Deer around one of those spots at the boundaries of a Yote pack borderline, you just find signs of the scat wars, where the Yote pack with the most poop wins.
Your Corn may not be as interesting as say 30-40 lbs. of good forage.
You don't have any Badgers around do you? They can get protective about feeders and claim them. And tend to fight off all comers. I watched a Mother Badger with two almost grown pups back down a Sounder of around 8 Hogs. It looked like the Hogs had a go around with Badgers before and wanted nothing to do with them.
Maybe the Yotes or even a Cougar or Bear has been leaving sign (marking) around there. You won't find many Deer around one of those spots at the boundaries of a Yote pack borderline, you just find signs of the scat wars, where the Yote pack with the most poop wins.
