Seeing a lot of deer activity in the heat of The day…I know the answer, but why when it is so hot and it goes against conventional wisdom?
Just a guess but headed to or from water sources?Seeing a lot of deer activity in the heat of The day…I know the answer, but why when it is so hot and it goes against conventional wisdom?
Another thing . . . . . .
Once soybeans get to a certain height, they actually offer deer a good place to bed in the shade, meaning they may have little need to ever leave a soybean field. They eat & bed there. What's more, there is little human disturbance out for them out in a soybean field.
Many, many years ago (probably late 70's), I remember one July stumbling into a bachelor group of 11 bucks utilizing a soybean field. They were spending most their time in the field @ 200 yds from a county blacktop road. Every time I heard a car coming, before either I or the deer could see it, the deer would lie down. Once the car passed, the deer would stand back up, then resume feeding. This happened quite a bit right in the middle of the day.
Have since noted deer behaving like this in many places during summertime.