Side yard visitors this evening

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
We are seeing a few fawns quite often. They do like to prance and frolicking around. Typical kids.
 

Ian

Notorious member
We have a pair of new fawns here too, the last doe (tamest) surviving the poachers last year dropped them recently and has been hanging around my water trough and shade. Hard way to build a herd, hopefully some fresh DNA will move in this year.
 

Cherokee

Medina, Ohio
I have a herd of 5-8 (depends upon hunters success) that live on the wooded back 6 acers of my property. They have fawns every year. Property is posted but they roam and get taken out from time to time. Have some pics of them playing in my swing Gazebo a few years ago. They are fun to have around and don't hurt anything I have. Wife loves them. I would never hear the end of it if I hunted them.
 

Ole_270

Well-Known Member
Grandkids are staying with us this week. A couple days ago they started hollering about a deer. Looked out and there was a young buck with about 6-8" of antler growth walking between the first and second row of the corn that surrounds the house. He was just about 5 yards behind my 27 yard pistol gong when they saw him. Went out and pulled the camera cards I've got running on each end of that cornfield today. Never saw that particular buck but pretty sure I got pictures of both his grandpas.
 

Ole_270

Well-Known Member
A couple fawns from a couple years ago. They're about 35 yards from my back door at the time this was taken. More surprising, they're 10 yards offline and about midway between my bench and 100 yard target butt. I'd already put 3 shots into the target, testing cast loads for the 308 I've written up here before and had started walking to the target for a look when I decided to take they're picture.
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I turned down a chance to take moma later that fall, decided if she was going to raise more that dumb I'd better let her do it.
That wheat field behind them went to soybeans last year and is now head high corn, will probably get no-tilled to wheat this fall. Makes for a nice food plot.
 

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
Cindy mentioned the other day, that we haven't seen any fawns, this Spring. Not that unusual, IMO. Mostly see bucks around here. A bachelor group of five, I posted on another thread, show up at least once a week.

Currently, ridding my acreage of bird food stealing coons. Caught two, in the last two weeks, in the Duke paw trap. They are on the small side and are managing to remove the mini marshmallows without tripping the trigger, all too frequently. Just checked, third one is held in the trap, now. Gonna have to make an honest coon out of him, when I finish my coffee.
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
coons love their marshmallows.
they also like fried sausages, I think they'd pass up a mallow for a sausage without a second thought.
 

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
I like marshmallows because the coons love them. They don't stink or go rancid. They are effective and cats or dogs won't touch em. No worries about trapping your neighbor's pet. Not that I have neighbors but I do get an occasional stray. Had a stray cat, I named stubby, for a couple of years. Use to hunt birds around my sunflower feeders. Stubby's tail was short like a bobcat.
 

smokeywolf

Well-Known Member
MMMMM, Turkey. Wish we had turkey here, but I'm told the coyotes pretty much cleaned out the turkey population here years ago.

Our deer go nocturnal during hunting season and I've not put forth enough time & effort in establishing a food plot, yet. Tried some of the throw & grow clover, but it didn't take.
We see them a couple of times each week when we take Tasha out after dark. If he has survived another hunting season, we do have one very large buck that I've seen at least twice, once at sunrise last Memorial Day when I was out lowering the flag to half staff.
Up until about 5 months ago I was buying a bag of corn and a bag of some blueberry based pellets every 3 months or so and broadcasting them out on the northeast lawn within 10 or 20 yards of the edge of our forest. Between the birds (especially crows), squirrels, possums, rabbits and the occasional Rocky racoon, I think the deer got maybe a third of it.

Squirrels? We have dozens, if not hundreds. An hour ago I saw one through the tall window next to the fireplace scurrying along the deck railing. Yesterday they were cleaning off the screens that cover the rain gutters.
Had to stop refilling the bird feeder until I can hang it in such a way as to keep the squirrels from breaking into it. May try putting some conduit together into a quasi shepherd's crook shape and tie it to one of the garden fence posts.
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
if you tie it to anything they will just use the rope.
you need one of those spinning off balance feeding houses, it doesn't totally work but it is at least entertaining watching them fly off after hanging on for dear life.
 

smokeywolf

Well-Known Member
Four deer in the yard this morning at about 0900. First I've seen in daylight hours since hunting season began. One was a very large doe, one medium and one small doe and I think one (a little one) was a button buck. Big doe was closest to the house and very alert. First time we've seen 4 at once.
Had I had a blind on the deck and been in it, I could have taken her with the compound bow. Even with my rusty skills. Would not have tried, even with everything in place, as I still haven't gone to the Arkansas Game and Fish to get my lifetime hunting lic.