Monday, January 17, 2011

I can see the white-tail's bedding from my house (less than 200 yeards away in the woods)!

This long weekend, the backyard had about 10 inch snow. So it's fairly easy to spot the footprint of white-tail deers. I noticed a dozen white-tails gathering together in a close quarter around 2 PM, in less than 200 yard away in the woods. Using a binocular 7x50mm, I can tell there is a 4-pointer buck and all the rest are does.  I am wondering what happened to the big buck that I saw last year :-(

The bedding area is about 100 yards away from houses, without thick brushes. so I can see clearly without a binocular. And my kids can spot them too.

During the night with bright moon light, I can see them foraging away from their bedding area around 4 PM.  passing my backyard , across the road.   They are very reactive to car noise on the road.

Every night, they moved their bedding area a little bit ( 50 yards ) from the previous night for some reason.

This dozen deers are loosely divided into 2 doe groups and a lonely buck.   And I even saw the young does running in circle near the bedding area.  I guess she is very happy with a full stomach.

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