Posted on 11/20/2015 9:37:18 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I have always wondered what do deer eat in the wintertime and how do they get shelter from the bad weather?
They eat a lot of acorns and other seed/nut crops throughout the winter. I have several oaks and I see them routinely on my property.
Hit one of these infernal animals in my new Sonata last week. I was down to 10 mph at point of impact and still $1500 in damages. They don’t make them like they used to...
I hit one broadside on my motorcycle once at ~50MPH
I flipped, ate ~20Yds of asphalt, and broke bones
I almost cut it in two, I hit it so hard
I have some serious respect for what Deer can do now...
Better to hit a deer than to hit a moose.
Here in Michigan its hard to tell when they’re on the move because they’re always everywhere.
LOTs of nice deer being taken in my neck of the woods. (Lots of photos)
http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2014/10/michigan_bucks_monster_deer_on.html
They’re searching for food since the corn has been harvested. I’ve been involved in several deer/auto collisions. Their hair gets stuck in the front grill of the car, hard to wash off. Sounds awful, but it took me months to clean it all out.
Thanks, there are lots of oak trees and lots of acorns. It makes me feel better that they have something to eat in the winter.
I have seen these little whistle like devices that can be placed on the hood of a car. I think the whistle noise is supposed to scare off the deer. Have you ever heard of these and do they really work.
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.
I know people who swear by deer whistles on their cars and trucks but there’s really no scientific basis for them to work.
SLOW DOWN!
Out here, the crop harvesting that is still going on stirs the deer up, and that doesn't help matters; with less cover to use, they can get pretty frantic trying to get to the next patch of timber or other sheltered place. During a hot air balloon ride(!), I witnessed for myself how far and hard a herd will run will run when they put their minds - such as they are - to it.
Mr. niteowl77
In my area the deer are so thick they wander in herds thru peoples properties and have adjusted to the suburbs. I sat on my sons deck and watched a herd walk right by me......they don’t seem to be nervous at all around people.
Apparently, they're as much a hazard as deer.
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