Deer Movement Goes Natural

Now that the bait piles are off of the landscape the movement patterns of deer have become much more natural.  Plenty of daytime sightings.

Not that deer don't move during the evening hours at all but when there is artificial feed placed out for them they're more likely to restrict their movements to the evening hours when there is no hunting pressure but the corn buffet remains open.

This is the new deer management paradigm in Wisconsin.  Supplemental feeding, shooting deer off of corn piles and a one-size-fits-all deer management policy. I guess all a person can do is get by as best they can on their own chunk of turf.  Oh well.


Successive photos taken of a group of three deer...

Followed by two more...

And two more...

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Seven deer in the space of a minute.