Wildlife 2024/2025 Deer Season

[Wildlife]

That's a cool double beam buck! Hope to see him on your tailgate in a few months.

Thank you!

He's a buck that I had a close encounter with last gun season in my backyard while I was heading out for a hunt. I was walking down the path as he was coming up it. I stopped first and froze before he saw me, then he stopped within 15 yards as he began to wind me. I could've easily shot him right there, but I wish for him to grow a couple more years first for me, or hopefully a guest or family member might get lucky this season with him. We'll have to wait and see. I'll be more focused on a couple of others myself, or that's the way I'm leaning at the moment anyway. ,

I appreciate you, and best a luck to you this hunting season!

Sincerely,
Denny

 

[Wildlife]

Quick follow-up, then done for the day!

A group of young bucks. Work was being done in the surrounding area today, that is why I believe they're running a little late this evening.

First two deer captures from the new Tactacam XB just purchased and installed this afternoon at the beaver trees.

First buck this evening captured by the creek TC.

Good night, TOO'ville!

 

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3:20 a.m., August 23, 2024: - Predators

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It's been on the prowl the past couple of days and there's a good chance that it got one of the fawns this morning. One of the same Bobcats where I've shared video clips and pix of over the past couple of years.

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Caught the last few auditable moments of some of the young coyotes carrying on overnight within the immediate area. Typical behavior during moon lit nights this time of the year, and on through towards the end of the hunting season each year as well. I hunt coyotes and have managed to keep them at bay over the last few years for the most part. Most all of the adult coyotes are gone within the immediate area currently. I'll be hunting the latest generation in 2025.

 

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5:15 p.m., Friday, August 23, 2024: Fawn encounter

I replenish one of the feed sites with another 50# of whole corn a little bit ago.

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The fawn in question yesterday is fine and well today as you'll get to see within video.

 

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Chillin. Cheers 🍺

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Chillin.

Cheers

 

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[Stressless]

I got some great wildlife pics putting a cam just at water line in a beaver dam looking upstream and if you can drop a tree trunk across the corner of the bank to the dam that worked well for me me to. Great pics and vids of @Wildlife ya got going

 

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[giles]

Bloody

 

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6:15 AM, Tuesday, August 27, 2024:

Bucks last night are showing that they're still holding on to their velvet, and I gathered some more Bobcat captures from off trail cameras and created a new video clip.

Hope everyone is staying nice and cool during our latest heatwave.

Take it easy!

 

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11:00 AM, Wednesday, August 28, 2024:

Only one velvet shed so far out of the bunch, but I believe the others will follow real soon. Perhaps during the next rain event, hopefully sometime today.

Another coyote pup TC capture, plus more within the video below, and you'll get to hear them howling while the beaver is hard at work.

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Three [3] days and approximately 30 minutes worth of work, and this beaver downed another good-size Cottonwood tree. Evidence of their presence came about two years ago, but much further on down the creek. Now they have taken up residence right at the back of our property this year, and they're definitely contributing to some serious habitat changes within the immediate area, for the better too, imho. Hinge cutting for the bucks that they are.
I put this video together this morning showing one of them over the course of the past few days, showing one of them downing a tree that I discovered last Wednesday of the beginning of its handy work.

I hope you enjoy today's video, and thanks for watching!

 

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6:30 PM

Okay, what a day. Most everything that follows, I'd wish to include in this year's journal. I do appreciate having the opportunity to document my journey here on the site, out of Ross County. Thank you, TOO!

Top 10, so far for the day. A couple more bucks shed their velvet today. 'Freeload' and one of last year's eights. And the evening just begun. I'll catch up tomorrow.

Goodnight, TOO!

First daylight photo of the day.

'Freeload' last evening.

Him again about an hour an half ago.

One of last year's 8pts -

Him again a few moments ago.

 

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1:00 pm, Tuesday, September 3, 2024: '@theotherfarm'

This morning I had an appointment in Fairfield Co. and right after that meeting, I stopped over at the other farm to see how things were going there for the year.

I'm happy to report that everything looks really good! There are deer signs all over the place. In fact, there are two heavy main deer runs now that lead to the feed site that I established two years ago. I will not be dumping corn this year at that farm, or put up any trail cameras because I know the deer herd there is very healthy and abundant in numbers. I'll be hunting it like I did back in 2008, 09, 10, 11.

I spoke with the owners for a few minutes to catchup on the latest news and found out that they have a new great grandson right next door inside the brand new home, the same location that I cleared trees in the woods to make room for the new home to be built. The homeowner's are very happy, which is what I like to hear. They did ask if I would be interested in clearing out some more timber for them, which I happily agreed to do for them.

The following attached photographs are what I took while checking out the area. You can see that the things are drying out already, and the ground is like concrete, but I see hazel nuts, walnuts, acorns and more, so they seem to be doing fine at this point.

I will not be harvesting any antlerless deer again this year at my home, but I will be wanting to harvest at least two of them this year at this farm, and maybe a buck too.

Hope everyone is doing well and had a wonderful holiday break. I'm just looking forward to the end of the month.

Take care everybody!

 

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2:00 AM, Thursday, September 5, 2024:
'1/2 of the local bucks are still in velvet'

'Freeload'

@giles - your 7

 

[giles]

Where Diamond?

 

[Wildlife]

He's roaming around this week being busy with his new antlers, ever since he shed. Last set of pix of him. I expect see him relatively soon.

'Crazy-Eight' shed the other day, too, along with a couple others around his age. I passed on him a couple times last season, during both archery and gun season.

 

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Lookiin mighty handsome, I'd say... Hope someone is getting excited[?]

 

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Must have worked up an appetite last night because he's been stuffing his face in that trough like there's no tomorrow.

Have a great week everybody!