August 23 - Sightings

I saw several deer on the property throughout the week and one today. The first one was a very nice mature doe spotted in the evening last Sunday after I posted. The location was a very nice knoll full of stickers the deer love to eat and bed and use this location as cross off of the ridge to the open fields. I saw a doe and


two fawns standing next to our garden early in the morning around 7:15 on 8/19. I nice sunny cool morning. Hiking today with my son (and unfortunately our two dogs) on the back steep side of the property, I came across a very nice mature doe. Between the dogs and my son, there was no way to creep through the woods, but I used the opportunity to look for any clear trails, scrapes, and rubs. I came across a very nice heavily used trail on the bottom side of our ridge the deer have been using to cross between ridges. The path leads from a known bedding location to the only easy path to the bottom of the ridge. The deer use the path down to cross to another ridge, and this new path gives me a new spot for a permanent stand.