Forgot to add.
What could have changed on the properties connecting to you that have changed the deer behavior?
Could a neighbors farm been a prime bedding ground with thigh heavy cover and recently cleaned up and is now a primary feeding area? Or vice versa? A primary feeding ground get grown up and covered up and now the deer are using it for bedding and cover?
Any changes around you can severely impact your own property,
My own property is going through a bit of a change but it's really a change for the better.
A connecting property had a cedar thicket of 100 acres completely stripped last year. It's since been cleared and planted.
My farm consists mostly of heavy timber with two small 5 acre and 8 acre fields, the other connecting property is a cattle farm, the deer use to use the Cedar thicket as bedding ground and would constantly be passing through my property on the way to the cattle farm and mill around on my acorns, Now they use the fringes of my property for bedding and still,work between the connecting properties for primary feeding, so I have the best of all the worlds.