Scouting & Pics
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Scouting
For Deer In Feb thru July 2002: a Photo Journey
2002 Scouting logs and on the spot
pictures -- by Robert Hoague
 Scouting
For 2002
Feb 24 - This morning my camera was busy. I got some cool deer pics of deer doing their thing, plus one pic of a buck that has shed its antlers. To The Deer Pics... When Do The Bucks
Start Growing Antlers?
Shanna's Deer
Pics!
Scouting June
3:
Scouting June
10 - The Crippled Doe Returns
More Scouting
- Young Buck
The
Deer Were Moving This Morning
FAWNS !!! First
Sighting Of The Year
BUCKS ANTLERS
ARE GROWING
SCOUTING DEER
FOR 2002 - Grooming
SCOUTING DEER
FOR 2002 (Wallpaper)
First Big Boy
Buck Of The Year!
Scouting The Rolled
Wire - Looking For Big Boy
SCOUTING - Bingo!
Big Boy Returns!
FAWNS & DOES
-- SCOUTING FOR DEER
I FIND THE BUCK!
More New Bucks
Fathers &
Sons & The Licking Tree
July 15 - This morning
I got a pleasant surprise. July's first Big Boy buck returned to the area
he was in on July
12. I recognized his rack (remember it's still growing) and looked
through my camera's viewfinder. Good, there was pretty good available light
and I got a pic of the buck. He walked under the limbs of a tree that the
deer use as a licking tree. He got to licking and pulling the limbs and
I took pictures. There were several more pics but in most of them his head
was a blur because of his movement in the limited light. As you see a first
year buck came up and was very excited about what he saw. Here
Are The Pics from the Licking Tree
Scouting
Pics & Notes From 2001:
2001
was a super year for my online deer scouting commitment. We followed the
deer from May thru the day before bow season.
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March
20, A Special Day
Mar
25 Monday Afternoon)
May
31 (8:34 am) - This morning at daybreak I watched a group of deer move
through my food plot area. Before long a buck with starter antlers in velvet
came up. I took pictures of all of them and here is a 
Deer
moved late this morning, the first ones were at 7:50am. I photographed
two bucks (in velvet with starter antlers), two does getting an attitude
with each other, and the other deer that were in the area -- one got within
a few yaards of me. 
Before
sunrise this morning I slipped out to my closest picture blind. At first
light I saw a deer approaching and by it's walk I knew it was the crippled
doe that I 
I
returned to the Hammer Hole. There was zero wild hog action but I did see
a young buck with starter antlers. It walked out of the brush on a trail
and strolled down the edge in my direction and re-entered the woods underneath
my tripod stand. 
(June
14) First light reflected off the back of a doe as it came into my photo
blind area. Next up were some racoons. A couple of does came to water in
my make shift water place, just the kind they like. The crippled doe and
10 other does came in. I lucked out and got 3 pictures with agressive
doe behavior in progress. 
Seeing
my first fawn for the year is always a big day. Sure we all know they are
out there, but the does keep them hidden until they figure the new fawns
can come along with them. 
The
last few days I have had no buck sightings. Today changed my luck. I spotted
two bucks in velvet walking along the fence that borders this years not
doing so well food plot. I took several pics but on most of them my camera
focused on the fence rather than the deer and the pics were blurry. 
I
got some cool pictures this weekend. I spied two deer in the brush. Soon
they came closer, a doe and a young buck. They started to groom one another
by licking licking each others face. They did it at two different places
and I was real close. 
My
game camera catches a doe walking past my tripod stand in the Hammer Hole.
Wallpaper: (
July
8 - I quietly slipped into my photo blind in the dark. Soon daylight's
first rays let me see around the area. I saw a deer's tail flick and checked
it out. There were antlers on the deer and even in the dim light I could
tell this buck already had a nice rack. I got busy with my camera. 
July
10 - I want to see if I can find where July's first Big Boy buck comes
on my property. So I started with the Western fence and went to the Rolled
Wire area and put up my double bull ground blind. On the way in I got a
cool pic of a fawn walking along the fence. Most of the traffic was 90
yards away as 11 does used that crossing. A young buck hopped the fence
and walked toward me. It saw the blind and I got a picture of him being
nervous (you'll recognize the look). Then he stared at it for a while.
He decided not to worry and walked on by. Then he joined a doe and the
two of them moved on. It sure was cool, I always love seeing the new fawns.
And having that buck only a few steps away made my day. 
July
12 - Daylight was coming on slowly. A few deer milled around the edge
of the nearby gully. Even though his head was down I saw a thick antler
on the largest bodied deer. He lifted his head up, there was no doubt it
was the buck I was looking for. I managed a couple more pictures, good
ones even in the advancing morning light. The buck walked over to the edge
of the gully and walked down into it and disappeared. I noticed the left
antler has a bulb on it, he is growing another point and his main beam
is growing. It is early, only July 12 and he has a lot of antler growing
to do. 
Fawns
and does. Fawns are rare to see until August & September arrives. Here
are a few
After
a couple of afternoons watching the Rolled Wire area I moved to the opposite
fence where I could see the major deer crossing on Shoemaker's Fence. I
got lucky. At 6:05pm the July Big Boy Buck walked out of the thick brush
and approached the crossing. I got two pictures. 
Fathers
& Sons: Notice the difference in the size of the two bucks. Here
is a wallpaper for ya. (
July's
Big Boy Again
Find
it here.
