So experienced a first last night. I'm in a corner stand located along a N/S running ditch/wood stretch about 30-40yards wide which connects an state owned swamp with a bigger section of woods....one side is a picked soybean field, other side an extremely overgrown soybean unpicked field...just to set the stage. Here's a view out the back of the stand: Anyways...so I've witnessed fawn/yearlings playing many times. You know the moments, the older deer stand usually on guard or feeding while the fawns act like that have fire ants attacking their back legs.... ...last night though I saw something I've never seen. A group of 4 does came out all the way across the field...not a big deal, but got binocs up and as I did I couldn't believe my eyes. EVERY SINGLE doe was running around in circles...up and down the field edge...this went on for easily over 5 minutes. One of the does looked to be easily 5 years old or more, wish she'd come my way. Never before have I seen full grown mature does do this...it was like they were having a party or something. Just crazy the things we see...also had this little guy climb basically onto my leg and after quite a few minutes of staring at me I tried to snap a photo and he became un-interested:
LOL yep usually only see the yunguns doin that. PS. Ty did you see my FC post??? lol He is right on time, decisions decisions
These scenarios are exactly why I love bowhunting. We continue to see and learn new things as the years go by! Thanks for sharing!
I wish with all my might I had brought my video camera...phone couldn't zoom in enough to make it worth-while. It was by far the craziest deer behavior I've seen.
I saw that around this time of year about 4/5 years ago, maybe late Oct/early Nov of 2009? 5-7 does, both old and yearlings almost like a game? Follow the leader or tag. Then off to the deep woods they went. I thought about a shot, but they never knew I was there and despite my noises, they kept right on playing
Maybe the older one was saying to the others "Do this when you think a hunter is around....they'll think you have some disease and not shoot...it also keeps the fellas off ya as they think you're weird!"
I saw a fawn do this a few days ago. And by fawn I mean FAWN. Smallest deer ive ever seen in October. Never seem mature does do it though.
Seeing stuff like that is great. a few weeks back at my fruit trees I witnessed something similar Ty, it was a fawn doe acting like a dog does when the play, like butt up in the air crouching down head tilting back and forth...towards the mother doe of another fawn!! it was pretty cool to see
I know exactly what you are talking about. Last summer I had a group of 7 or 8 does and fawns doing the exact same thing. And for at least 5 minutes also. Wish I had a video, it was nuts. Cool thing was it was right out in my clover field in front of my house, so our whole family watched it going on out the windows with bino's. I've seen fawns do that alot, but that is the only time I've ever seen the whole group act like that.
Ty my buddy has pet deer and his older does play just as much as the fawns do only when they want too! It is funny to watch but the fawns play almost all the time. One of his does I know is 7 and she loves to play. I will run in the cage with them in the spring and she will run after me then she will run away and I will chase her. She loves it. I will try to get it on camera this year. We do NOT go in the pen when Nebo and Skipper his two bucks have hard horns. They are to dangerous with them on their heads. On the funny side of this post is that them tree rats are getting some NUTS! Here is the fella that tried to get in the tree with me last week.
