Death Pays a Visit

This past weekend everyone was out in the woods to clean nest boxes.  Fifty-two of them are now ready for service (although a couple are in need of replacement lids).  Easy peasy - interchangeable parts.

In any event we came across more dead deer.  Or the remains thereof.

One was a fawn from the 2017 recruiting class and was pretty stinky.  I'm not sure what killed it or how it died - although it is possible it was struck by someone driving on the gravel road on the north property line.  Or maybe it died of rough winter conditions.  Who knows?

The other remains were of a spike buck - and since the antlers were still attached to the skull and the bones generally scattered it had to be from last fall.  Perhaps a deer wounded during the hunting season?









I'll post pics of another in a few days.  That makes three - that we've found anyway.  I sure hope they're not starvation victims.