I went hiking before deer hunting opener.
First morning I saw a deer about 25yards out, 15 minutes before it was legal to shoot. I listened to the turkeys instead. They get a lot louder than this. A good metaphor for covid dissidents. I will have to take another vid when they are really making a racket. They have chosen the trees around my stand to roost in every night, probably 30 of them or more.
I didn’t see another deer all day, but that was ok because it was a beautiful day to sit in the woods, stretch and think about life.
The next morning? Nothing but the wind. I moved to the field by the pond for the evening, hiding between two pines. (The wind howled all day and now into the night.)
Thinking some deer on the move might walk the edge of the pond, and watching this wood line as there is a 2 acre patch of clover the deer love on the left of the pic.
But the deer are bedded down in the tall grass wetlands, as the wetlands are dry and passable after no rain since the spring, and the clover is surviving on the dew, so not very vigorous so not much of a draw for the deer. I imagine, as the weather has turned cold, they are taking a few days off, to lay around and sleep in the sun. Plus the moon is near full so they can wander around feeding overnight. Tomorrow morning I will sit in the stand again, but then around 10am, take a walk in those tall grass wetlands and see if I can spook some up.
Otherwise the temp outside will drop to 20f tonight. Just as the battery to run the furnace blower is failing. It might be cold in the trailer in the morning.
But no problem, I am deeply grateful for this trailer and this hunt. I have until next Sunday. Though there is talk of very cold rain for two days turning to snow the third. Deer have to come out and feed at some time. My stand has a roof.
So Tuesday, I go back to civilization to make another giant pot of soup, charge the battery and maybe buy another one (and think about a post on energy, and deer hunting II), and of course….vote.
You got turkeys, we got guinea fowl. The smart deer will heed their warning call.