BSK
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Earlier in the season, I was perplexed by the fact acorns were pouring out of the trees, yet deer were on my plots daily. Haven't seen that before. Usually, once good acorns fall, deer are off the plots, and 95% of their diet is acorns. However, in the last week or so, deer are almost completely off the plots. In addition, it's as if we've had a second acorn fall. We had trees just dump acorns mid-October, then quit. Yet since the cold weather hit, acorns again began pouring out of the trees and have done so since then almost continuously.
I'm beginning to wonder, considering we had a lot of hot, wet weather after the first acorn dump, and I noticed many of those acorns almost immediately went to root that the deer just weren't eating them much, hence food plot usage stayed high. The acorns falling now have not gone to root and deer are all over them and out of the plots. But I've never seen this "double drop" of acorns before, especially from the same species (White Oak).
I'm beginning to wonder, considering we had a lot of hot, wet weather after the first acorn dump, and I noticed many of those acorns almost immediately went to root that the deer just weren't eating them much, hence food plot usage stayed high. The acorns falling now have not gone to root and deer are all over them and out of the plots. But I've never seen this "double drop" of acorns before, especially from the same species (White Oak).