Daily Deercam, Sept 19, 2014

Corn down at 11:45.  First deer in the daylight at 2:15.  A few coons.  Zero squirrels, which seems pretty odd.  No pig.

Corn pretty much gone by 3:39.

Re-set the corn at 5:19 on the 19th.

Daily Deercam, Sept 17, 2014

First possum on cam, though I edited him.  Chucacabra came by.  Otherwise I haven't seen any deer except all the deer I saw on the first day.  There is a doe and two fawns and two little bucks who are hanging out together.  No big pig today though he has been pretty reliable after midnight.  Thinking about moving a protein feeder tube that is just a few yards away over to the site.  Gotta finish sealing up the blind on the back side.

Corn down at 1:00.  By 2:20 they are on it.

Eating straight through to 7:30+

Corn gone by 7:43.  Holy smokes.

Coons sniffing around.

Mom.

Always wonder what they are looking at.

Chucacabra!

Corn down today at 11:45.  I bet they are circling in right now.

Daily Deercam, Sept 15, 2014.

Skinny deer shedding their summer coats and going grey.  They are sucking up the corn, quick.  Surprised to see how ribby they are.  Plenty of just shredded fields with new growth close, plenty of open water, creek bottom, et.  Still they look undernourished.  I don't think we are over-capacity on the range unless the pigs are pushing them somehow.

I put the corn out within the hour and they are on it....

...and by 5:00 it is nearly all gone.  3/4s of a gallon.

Spike checks by to see if the corn fairy has visited.

...and checks.....

Just put another 3/4 of a gallon down at 1:00 on the 15th.  I bet some deer is on it right now.

Daily Deercam, Sept 13, Saturday, 2014.

Traffic at the cam.  Just third jug of corn out.

Rapidly fading spots and a skinny mom.

Seems like she would be in better shape but two nursing large fawns really drag her down.

Little bucks.

Nice side view.  Two years to go before he has any size and won't be a real trophy until the year after that.

Just stayed for one frame.  Seems to be full nocturnal, but must be bedding somewhere close....

Butt-checking to sort out which fawn is which.

Little buck fawn.

Swamp rabbit.

Lucy and I on cam about 30 mins after fawn above.  They are staying near.

Sept 11, 2014.....is tomorrow.

  Just saying...if there was ever a day that you might drop a Glock 19 and extra mags in your carry-all, or put an AR shorty with a fresh battery in the Aimpoint and a couple of handy 30 round mags in the back of the car under a blanket....

  This might be a good day to arrange that.

  Worst group ever has sworn to kill us in our homes.  Our fearless, (yet golfing) leader is going to tell them how the cow ate the cabbage, or what he thinks the par might be in the sand trap North of Baghdad this evening, they love attacking on anniversaries of their greatest triumph.

  You can't get in the party without a bottle.

Daily Deercam, Sept 10, 2014.

Just before the Muslims attack again, here's what is on the first shake out of the cam at the lakehouse.

Might be a little buck.  See those bumps?  Still spotted.  Very late fawn.

Mom and fawns.  One of our old experienced does.  

These does haven't been shot at in 50 years, so whatever the maximum medial age for does in fairly good range conditions is....that's how old they average.

Watching the new blind up the hill.  It's going to need more cover.

Daytime.  One of the fawns lays down in the sun.

They are starting to eat just in time.  She's a little skinny.

Related to a buck I shot in 2012 I think.  

Little year and a half buck.

Lotta aiming black on a pig.

Same little buck as above.

With a spike friend.

Note the time stamp here and below.  He must have heard me at the house.

Re-corned.  They know it's there now.  Action will probably pick up.