Doe and fawns

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rdust

Minister of Fire
Feb 9, 2009
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Michigan
Picture from one of my wildlife camera's, these guys have been hanging around for a while now...
 

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Do you think that the middle fawn heard the camera click?

I brushhogged between a pair of twin fawns last weekend. Momma was with one of them. Great to see the young ones, no horns yet though, got to wait for them to scratch their ear to see if any bucks are being grown.
 
My yearling crop has a couple of little bucks in velvet right now. One of them thinks he is Bullwinkle. He comes almost up to me out by the stacks to remind me it is corn time.
 
BrotherBart said:
My yearling crop has a couple of little bucks in velvet right now. One of them thinks he is Bullwinkle. He comes almost up to me out by the stacks to remind me it is corn time.

I had four small yearling bucks in the yard under my apple tree's the other day. I still haven't seen anything worth shooting yet this year though. It's tough to get them through the season around here, most my neighbors don't understand what deer management is. They see food for their table though so I can't complain too much about it.
 
Highbeam said:
Do you think that the middle fawn heard the camera click?

I wonder sometimes, the camera is in a case strapped to a tree, I think that catches their attention. If they're hearing the sound they're hearing stuff I'm not capable of hearing.
 
My "crew" moved on me. Two doe and their five fawn wintered 150 feet from the front of the house down in some brush from blown down trees this year. I would walk through them laying down going to the mailbox. Come spring they moved somewhere because the does stop by in the evening for corn but their new fawn are nowhere to be seen.

Disappointed me. After watching that buck chase the two does around in the back yard last winter I was looking forward to seeing the little guys come June. Last June all five of the little guys were here all the time.
 
Before the baiting ban in lower Michigan we would get some pretty large numbers when I tossed out corn. I don't know what it is but I'll always pay attention to them when they stop by no matter how many I've seen.
 

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In jersey we have white tail. What kind do you have?
 
gzecc said:
In jersey we have white tail. What kind do you have?

Whitetails in Michigan also.....
 
A pic of a few deer winter of 08 just a few miles up the road from me....
 

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Now ^ that's what I call a deer yard...holy cow.
 
Liar1_97, Ihave seen that pic before. One of my bosses showed me that pic, he told me that it was in upper WI. HUUMMM
 
I've had a doe "visiting" with me in the early evenings when I've been working on my woodshed roof . . . she's actually got quite close despite all of the noise . . . of course I suspect she's really there for the apples.
 
Damn disease carrying varmints! We are overrun with them in my parts. They eat everything and are a driving hazard. No way to safely hunt them in suburbia either.
 
My pumpkins are about to start turning color so I'll soon be inundated with deer. I try to like them, but can't.
 
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