Dad noticed the acorns have started to drop on the oak ridge on our property, so time to move a trail cam up there and see what’s moving. Sometimes this pulls different deer in than the ones we’ve been seeing throughout the summer.
Last year the pattern seemed to be that when the acorns dropped, the bucks moved in and stayed in until they were gone. Every night they were in there chowing down, but always at night. Interesting in that the bucks will eat in corn or alfalfa fields during the evening and morning, but I never caught one on cam in the acorns except in the dead of night.
Acorn crop didn’t look to me to be as huge as last year when the trees were just loaded, but it still looks like a lot more than I recall in other years. Last year was a huge crop and by late October the area under the oak trees looked like a front lawn, it was mowed down like a golf course from all the browsing activity.
Grouse
