Sunday morning is cold with a nice wind chill to go with the cold.
I make my way back to my PCV blind, I see more deer than just about any place other than the front yard.
I get in there and it is a hour and a half till sun rise so I streach out to take a nap for a bit. I wake up and still have about 15 minutes till the half hour before sun rise to find it snowing heavy.
If it keeps coming down like this we will have a good amount and I will have to clean around the mail box at least to get mail Monday.
It quit as quickly as it started and I notice movement out my north window. I pick up the binocs and look them over a older doe I presume with two early spring fawns.
They are really slow working their way to the east along the creek. Back about 100 yards from where I set there is a finger that sticks down to the creek, when they got there they turned south for a short ways then went south east to run ingo another group of deer all doe's going north. there were so many deer I lost count at 15 or 17 just don't know they were milling around so much when the group met my orginal 3.
They finally worked out their own traffic jam on the ridge with the north bound group making it to the creek then crossed and angled to the east up the ridge to dissapper.
About then the sun come out thru a hole in the clouds as it begain to snow lightly. Looking off to the hole in the sky with the sun shine, the snow was shimmering in the sky like a billion diamonds.
That is part of why I hunt to things I see as I wait for that monster buck, in awe watch the snow shimmering
in the sky as the sun dissappers.
It is once again snowing hard. Kare uses that time to call on the radio with a HOO HOO looking a lot like christmas.
She tells me she had 3 doe's down by the creek and rthe huge popple tree there that she thunks came from the corn field to the north. she says they stodd there for a bit looking north and then went up in the front yard crossing into the pines.
About a half hour later I have 3 doe's come down the wash out into the flood plain. I am guessing they are the ones Kare saw cross the front yard.
They all of a sudden start looking intently to the east for nearly what I would guess a half hour while browesing on some autumn olive. then all a sudden they turn and run back up the hill to the west and stand at the top looking back east again.
I start useing the binocs to search to the east and find a single doe working her way along the ridge to the east her self.
Things finally settle down for the hour and half till dinner.
I go up fill the furnace with fire wood to hold till bed time. I had gathered a pair of 3/4x3/4 sticks Saturday night I got and cut square to 39 inches drilla hole in them and used a 1/4" bolt a 1.5"long to fasten them together.
Now I have another set of shooting sticks to use in the ameristep blinds.
After dinner I go up in the front yard.
Not settled in long and 4 does come out to eat some of my nice long lawn grass I had left long just for them and is the best for my lawn too.
they finally leave circleing thru the brush behind me to cross the road to the big field ready for next years soy bean crop.
They are not gone long and more come out slowly browsing across the lawn to cross the drive, but before they cros sthat tiny little fawn I have seen before comes running out to join them. One of them to exception and swated at it with her front leg. So it backed off and only followed at a distance till they had dropped down to the creek to cross and go to the corn field.
That little fawn hung around, I call Kare and ask her to come out on the front porch to scare it away as I don't want to spook it when I leave the blind.
Kare told me she was up to her elbows in fixing supper so I should just get out. I pitched my thermos out thinking that would spook it into leaving but only got it to work closer to investgate. So I set my back pack out and got the same results.
Finally decided to just get out as it is way past legal shooting time. Unzip the blind door stick my head out watching the fawn who is really looking now. I take one step out watching the fawn the other foot catches the lip on the blind and I am falling out landing on my side. Look around to see if ther fawn was still there but that had finally scared it away. A bear had fell out of the blind I tell kare back at the house.
All in all I guess I saw in the area of 25 deer to 30 for the day.
Al