Daytime Deer Sightings

Striper69 · Jul 12, 2017

This week I started seeing deer in the fields during daylight hours around here in Iowa. Also seeing numerous dead deer on the side of I-29.

Curious about what is sparking this?

Jollyllama · Jul 12, 2017

Do you have corn/ soy crips growing in the fields? Deer eat that stuff. They bed down a lot during the day in brush along fields but will get up to eat if they feel safe. Normal behavior. Winter is coming.

The ones on the road tried to cross the road. Why did the deer cross the road? To get to the other field.

j_h_smith · Jul 12, 2017

This is their time to get as fat as possible. They will eat now that crops are growing. They also are smart enough to know that they aren't in season and they can do just about anything the well please. These same deer will disappear 2 weeks before deer season for no reason, other than the fact that know they will be hunted.

They are some smart animals. So smart that most hunters will be skunked the entire deer hunting season, while these guys sit in their man cave or wherever they go, laughing at us.

It's good to see them. I watched 10 of them in a field just this weekend. They had no worries at all.

fscwi · Jul 12, 2017

j_h_smith said:
This is their time to get as fat as possible. They will eat now that crops are growing. They also are smart enough to know that they aren't in season and they can do just about anything the well please. These same deer will disappear 2 weeks before deer season for no reason, other than the fact that know they will be hunted.

They are some smart animals. So smart that most hunters will be skunked the entire deer hunting season, while these guys sit in their man cave or wherever they go, laughing at us.

It's good to see them. I watched 10 of them in a field just this weekend. They had no worries at all.

Does also feed a lot at this time of year to produce milk for the fawns.

outrider58 · Jul 12, 2017

fscwi said:
Does also feed a lot at this time of year to produce milk for the fawns.

^^^This is key.

Fawns are getting bigger and more independent. They need more to eat/drink plus, they are starting to wean. Moms must work full time to keep things under control. Everyone is piling down the nourishment.

Doco Overboard · Aug 1, 2017

When it gets really hot you'll see them move in and out of tall standing corn all day long to get in there and cool off. Unless there is a branch nearby where the temps could be several degrees cool due to water evaporation.

tallen702 · Aug 1, 2017

Seen a ton out in daylight around here too. They're really going at it this year in terms of chowing down too! Squirrels have been packing it on too. Wondering if it's going to be a hard winter.

Doco Overboard · Aug 1, 2017

Ive been seeing more than average bucks around my way I guess because of the poor harvest last year on the shore, and plenty of them. A bachelor group of whoppers last Saturday night nearby. Thats why I'm adamantly against the proposed extension to the regional firearms season on the mid shore. You have to let them grow a bit to get a decent animal but everybody wants a shot at a big one but just cant seem to get it done I guess. Some will win big this year for sure.

mark71211 · Aug 1, 2017

I live in mayo and have been seeing two 8-10 (?) point bucks hanging out in a small grass plot just off of 214.

rgramjet · Aug 1, 2017

Saw a dead 8 pt, in the velvet, on the side of 216 by the turkey farm.

Derwood · Aug 2, 2017

I saw a group of three nice bucks in velvet on a sod farm around 6pm last Friday after the rain let up. It seems like they're always a little more active in daylight hours in mid summer.

Mini14tac · Aug 2, 2017

Seeing Does and fawns multiple times a day on my property. Have seen a few smaller velvet bucks here and there.

Jollyllama · Aug 3, 2017

I ate venison chili last night for dinner. It was still light out.

BossmanPJ · Aug 3, 2017

I have the same 2 deer in my back yard every morning at 5:30 sharp. They return every night at 7:30 sharp as long as I'm not making noise outside and the kids aren't playing.

BossmanPJ · Aug 3, 2017

Crappy photos I know. They are taken through a black screen at dawn.

outrider58 · Aug 3, 2017

Jollyllama said:
I ate venison chili last night for dinner. It was still light out.

Bravo!

CaptainAwesome · Aug 3, 2017

Urban venison. They seem to be all over the neighborhood this year.

Jollyllama · Aug 3, 2017

outrider58 said:
Bravo!

Had to finish the rest of last season's meat. I'm on a crop damage permit and might get out there this weekend.

Chili was fantastic of course as always. Brought some to work for a co-worker, she loved it. She is on a diet so I told her it was "free-range extra lean meat chili."

Gryphon · Aug 3, 2017

I saw a good size doe eating the grass between the sidewalk and curb on Rt. 43/Bel Air Road yesterday, with cars wizzing by at 45 MPH. No fear.

sino26 · Aug 3, 2017

I see these in my back yard daily. I was standing about 15 yards away and my dog was barking at them. They eventually walked into the woods. There's a large group of does that come around also.

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