We have recently, as in the past two days, have had some pretty severe storms in our area. Heavy thunder, tornado warnings, downed trees, and knocked out power. They have all been bad ones this year and more frequent. I noticed in tracking and refreshing my mineral station today there seems to have been little to no deer movement. Usually after a heavy rain (without storms) there are always tracks on the ATV/Tactor trails and my mineral station usually has fresh markings. Today I saw none anywhere. So my question as stated is, do bad storms affect deer travel and or normal activity patterns? If so how?
A few years ago we had a terrible storm with about 10" rain. It knocked down trees and in this particular valley even changed the path of the creek bed. I was getting thousands of pics every month on my trail camera and over night it stopped like turning off a switch. Hope it goes back to the usual pattern for you.
There hasn't been any changes to the land scape like that. Earlier in the year we did have some huge trees uprooted but, it didn't have an affect on them then. Time will tell though.
In my woods to the east we had a couple trees fall across paths I know the deer are using. I'm going to have to monitor their movement. You could always set up a couple feeders to help "motivate" them to another path.
They are back. My mineral station had new activity this morning so I guess there could have been a few factors. Yesterday I refreshed my mineral station. I guess the heavy rain may have had an affect on it due to our ground being pretty hard packed and containing mostly carolina clay. I guess the storms may have kept them a little low key also.
