Dove also know when its dove season as well. LOL
LOL! Must be a “Deer Crossing” sign there.
Turkeys are pretty much the same. It’s amazing how these dumb birds are able to consult the calendar and vanish.
Rats with antlers. Kill ‘em all and put them in a stew.
I live on six wooded acres backed by some state forest land around Lake Talquin for which there is not only no public access, it’s so densely wooded I can’t even walk through most of it. For most of the year there are few deer here as there is little to no grass. But during deer season, they are practically wall-to-wall. I see them in daylight. They consume every bit of grass around my house and leave churned up tracks everywhere. As soon as deer season is over, they leave. Don’t tell me they don’t understand hunting season and where there won’t be any hunters.
We have wild turkeys in my suburban neighborhood, like overgrown pigeons. I never was able to find them in areas you could hunt them, but they’re all over the Sacramento burbs..
I am so glad to know DNA is continuing to evolve, at least among deer. I have not one doubt at all that it is not, absolutely not doing the same in humans.
I think they just get stuck in a rut.
More than anything, the deer seem to know the safe zones.........
Like my 3 acre field next to the road.Once they leave that there invisible
My husband might agree. He’s hunting a huge, big mass antlered 8 point with a club of a drop tine that has shown up on all three of his trail cams all summer. This deer will go 300# easy. Bow season starts - nothing. Nada. Zilch. He even passes up a nice tall ten at 15 yards so he could keep his buck tag open. Well, the 10 point was scrawnier.
They can read a calendar just like anyone else.
“Shhh, don’t let them know we’re actually not color-blind.”
For the hunters out there, that have never seen it, here is the best (and only as far as I know) deer camp movie.
Watch it every year for luck....
The bucks have been savvy for a long time. They are dumb stumbling beasts right up to opening day, then they become alien ghosts. I tracked a big one into a ravine in perfect tracking snow, and tracked it right out on the same trail — it passed within a few feet of me, crouching and sliding its way through briers. A neighbor had a buck sleeping on the porch with his dogs one year. I’m glad they don’t get people tags.
For all those anti-hunters out there, deer in the city/town can b a big problem, a nuisance and potentially life threatening.
When the deer herds invade suburbia, expect more automobile deer accidents, which can cost money, injure or even kill people in the car or from vehicles swerving.
And believe it or not, deer can be quite aggressive, especially the bucks during rut. Those antlers can kill you, and they can rear up and slice you with their front hooves.
And for the deer, when they over-breed, and no natural predators exist except for a few human hunters—and NONE in the city—they can literally starve to death over winter; brutally, painfully and slowly. Finally, too many deer increase human Lyme disease due to many more ticks surviving and thriving.
I’m not saying they’re a scourge, but too many is just that. Allow carefully selected bow hunters in town.
Deer fencing around vineyards also changed the natural pathways.
Bttt.
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