I feel fortunate, that we don’t have to worry about deer. We do however have those bushy tailed rats called squirrels.
We catch them in live traps and release them on our land about 15 miles away where there is enough forage to keep them from wanting to return.
We have a heavy population of deer this year that come into our yard twice a day.
They are so graceful and frail looking. No squirrels at all this year. Think the Bobcats or Coyotes got to them- poor things. Yes I live in CT and have both!!
At about the same time the deer come, the Robins are here, 100’s of them.
Our 2 year old Westie sits on the bed watching all of them, but when one deer starts to run- chaos!
My friend Bob was overrun with squirrels and finally started trapping and relocating them. Despite his efforts, he didn’t seem to be making a dent in the squirrel population, which was really a puzzle to him. One afternoon, he was out working in the yard and noticed a pickup truck he didn’t recognize, stopping up the road near a wooded patch of land next to his property. The driver got out, went around to the back, pulled out some live traps .... and released a couple of squirrels! As fast as Bob could trap them, somebody else was releasing squirrels back at his location .... puzzle solved.