Any given day I have 3 - 11 white tail deer/fawns traipsing through the yard. In the fall/winter have two ivy covered slopes on either side of the house and the deer bed down for the night. Last winter it was 10’ and saw 12 deer just bedded down in the snow, spaced about 5 feet apart (surprised they weren't huddled together).As for eating, they have rooted up about 2,000 flowering bulbs, eaten hundreds of hostas, hundreds of Japanese forest grasses, used dozens of ceramic urns filled with begonias/vines as personal buffet servers, stripped off bark from many newly planted saplings. Any landscaped lush property is a smorgasbord for wintertime deer. This year was the worst.
We have the usual arguments in the area, hire bow hunters to cull the herds vs the anguished pleas to save 'Bambi".
They really are gormands.