“In Minnesota the most frequent months for deer collision are November and October, when hunters are afield and deer are mating and moving more, followed by June, when newborn fawns are beginning to move around.”
In Coastal Californicator land, our best time to get hit by deer starts in August and goes until our first rains.
Summer and early fall, Archery and firearm seasons drive the bucks into the suburbs during the early annual part of “Watchout for Deer”.
Then, as our normal summer/fall drought continues until the first hard rains, usually in November, food for the grazing deer continues to get harder and harder to find.
When our moon nights, reach half full moon to full moon and back to half full moon. At night our roads are packed with deer grazing by the roads or trying to find a grazing spot in the moonlight.
If we go out after dark during this period, we will often see over a dozen deer in our block and immediate roads.
During these nights, Bambi loving drivers learn the hard way, if they don’t kill themselves, to never drive off the road to avoid a deer. Trees and rocks can take a fatal or serious toll on those who do this.
In one year, a soft hearted doctor, drove off the road to avoid hitting a deer and spent a couple of weeks in the hospital. Then he did the same with a bunny. After talking to him, he bought a big Ford Diesel F250 4X4, and according to rumors, he carried a butchering pack in his truck to remove back straps from deer not smart enough to get off the road.
Where there’s one there’s usually at least three. Don’t think just because the one you see jumped out of the road that there aren’t more coming.