Its a harem, that old buck shouldn't be too far away from these ladies, looks like a solid 3 generations standing out there.
Wow that looks good
Checked my camera's this am and was impressed by one ol' gal. She just looks healthy, no rib showing and look at her bag, strutted like a milk cow. She isn't showing much sign of estrus, there is a little color on the tarsals, but we know the rut is coming! Haven't caught a buck on camera for several weeks, keep tellin' my self to be patient.
Treefarmer
This little episode took place this afternoon, January 1, 2017.
It was sprinkling rain, I was in the shooting house on the larger plot a little before 4pm.
A small doe was in the pines and around the corn feeder before it went off. She spooked and ran when it went off but soon returned and fed on the corn that the feeder had put out. She finally left and worked her way out of sight in the woods to the west of the wheat plot. She showed back up in the wheat and fed diagonally across toward the southeast corner of the plot.
I love to have a single deer in a situation like this, they never miss a thing. If they go to lookin' at something you might want to figure out what they are interested in, especially during the rut.
Everything fell in place, she was starin' at something and I finally could see it was a deer. The deer finally moved out of the bushes enough to see it was a buck, the rest is history. He was one of the 6 points that had been on camera off and on earlier in the year, wish the grandson had got him but I'll send him a picture and he'll certainly help us eat some of the buck.
Treefarmer
Well done good size deer there. Freezer and stories full for another year.
Good job
