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Re: What is causing our deer to go nocturnal?
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01/20/15 07:55 AM
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Matt Brock
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Deer are naturally nocturnal, and with the slightest pressure, even more so. I wouldn't say there is anything wrong. You're seeing deer in the woods and in clearcuts. They feel more secure moving in daylight in those areas because there is more cover.
How often do the three of you hunt?
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Re: What is causing our deer to go nocturnal?
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Personally I rarely hunt food plots. In my opinon they are supplemental feeding areas aND don't provide cover during the daytime. I've had much better success seeing deer in the woods. Of course at night the deer come to the plots. If a plot gets hunting pressure deer tend to avoid them during the day unless the rut is on. But then again I hate hunting out of a shooting house. Just doesn't feel like hunting to me. If you want to increase your sightings, get in the woods, especially the thick stuff. I think hunters are getting lazier and therefore you get complants about no deer.
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Re: What is causing our deer to go nocturnal?
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01/20/15 08:24 AM
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Deer are naturally nocturnal, and with the slightest pressure, even more so. I wouldn't say there is anything wrong with. You're seeing deer in the woods and in clearcuts. They feel more secure moving in daylight in those areas because there is more cover.
How often do the three of you hunt? I have to disagree with the "naturally nocturnal" statement. Deer are crepsuscularOther crepuscular mammals include jaguars, ocelots, strepsirrhines, red pandas, bears, deer, moose, chinchillas, the common mouse, skunks, Australian wombats, wallabies, quolls, possums and marsupial gliders, spotted hyenas, bobcats, tenrecidae, capybaras, African wild dogs, sitatunga, and the extinct Tasmanian tiger. Crepuscular birds include the Common Nighthawk, Owlet-nightjar, Chimney Swift, American Woodcock, and Spotted Crake.
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Re: What is causing our deer to go nocturnal?
[Re: Relentless308]
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01/20/15 08:45 AM
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Matt Brock
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Bud, as a biologist, I know full well what crepuscular is, and I know which animals are crepuscular. Although deer will move at any time of the day or night, and so will every creature on that list of crepuscular animals, I believe you are picking at very minor details that mean nothing. Deer move mostly at night, BEGINNING their movements at crepuscular periods.
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Re: What is causing our deer to go nocturnal?
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01/20/15 08:52 AM
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I think it has a lot to do with our mild climate. It just doesn't really get that cold here so deer don't have to feed that heavily in the winter to stay warm. Therefore, when its warm like today, they don't have to get up and move around in the daylight as much putting themselves in danger. I think the reason you see them more when we have these cold snaps with temps in the teens is because they don't have the option anymore to lay up all day. They have to get out and get those calories during those periods. If we had colder winters, I think we would see more daytime activity.
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Re: What is causing our deer to go nocturnal?
[Re: Relentless308]
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01/20/15 08:56 AM
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Id help explain it by pointing out the huge acorn mast crop too. deer prefer acorns and there are a ton of them both places I hunt. This can keep them in the woods more.
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Re: What is causing our deer to go nocturnal?
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01/20/15 09:10 AM
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Matt Brock
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Hey Matt, do you think our issue here is that for the majority these deer are just not bedding close which is our case for not seeing many during daylight hours? It absolutely has a lot to do with it in some areas. Deer will often travel several hundred yards to over a mile from where they are bedded down to the food source they prefer. If a deer gets up out of it's bed 20 minutes before dark, walks 986 yards to a preferred food, lightly browsing along the way, then you are back in the truck and half way to the house before it gets to the food source it was headed to. Food sources near thickets and available bedding areas usually see more day activity, and sometimes all day. I visit places regularly that have plenty of food, beautiful, well-maintained plots with high usage, and deer tracks everywhere. Yet, they aren't seeing deer. 1/2 mile down the road is a 300 acre three year old clearcut with blackberry, honeysuckle, jessamine, and privet which the deer are snacking on all day while bedded down. Food, in relation, to bed, is critical in deer sightings. Another thing that could influence deer activity, and timing, is feeding corn. Almost everyone is feeding now, somewhere. There are feeders all over the state full of corn all season. That high carb food source, readily available, influences day light activity, and food plot use.
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Re: What is causing our deer to go nocturnal?
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01/20/15 09:18 AM
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Blessed, feeding is legal. Hunting by the aid of bait is not. Regardless, there's a heck of a lot of feeding going on, whether it's being hunted over or not.
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Re: What is causing our deer to go nocturnal?
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Food sources near thickets and available bedding areas usually see more day activity, and sometimes all day. Food, in relation, to bed, is critical in deer sightings.
Ya'll read these two sentences again, and keep them in mind if ya wanta see and/or kill deer.
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Re: What is causing our deer to go nocturnal?
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Food sources near thickets and available bedding areas usually see more day activity, and sometimes all day. Food, in relation, to bed, is critical in deer sightings.
Ya'll read these two sentences again, and keep them in mind if ya wanta see and/or kill deer. So how do you find these food sources? In thick stuff, there's always something green. How do you know you're in the right area?
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