In some other pictures, I can still see some staining on the big 8 point. When I videoed him a few weeks ago, his back legs were almost black from being pee’d on.
I saw a bobcat Sunday morning in low light and out of crossbow range, and it looked bigger than this one.
I've been pleased with the turn-out to my new gravity feeder. Need to get a 2nd camera to monitor the prior, often ignored, broadcast corn feeder. After being present for a couple of weeks, the protein feeder feeding rush has maxed out at four deer and two opossums (not counting one visit by a large hog sounder). The most mature buck, who visits at least one a day, mostly at night, seems to have only one good eye. His left eye was likely taken out in a rut scuffle. About half the deer who visit have figured out how the feeder works. The other half, including this buck, eat what was spilled on ground.
Well, my wide buck survived rifle season and unless he succumbs to the elements, he will likely make it to next season because he has already lost one of his antlers. He had them both on December 16th, then dropped one by the afternoon of the 17th.
Here is another pic of him this past weekend. If you zoom in, you can see he actually dropped the antler and it wasn’t broken off.
Wow, that is early to lose antlers.
Well, I guess it’s contagious, because I found this one when I checked cameras this morning.
Hopefully this guy survives the winter. I'd like to see him next year.
Yep. I had a basket rack show up on cell cam this morning with one of his gone, and I know he still had it a few days ago.
At first I figured the big guy lost it due to stress from rut and all, but it’s looking like they are dropping for some other reason.
Another buck showed up this evening with something missing.
