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Author Topic: Anybody else noticing anything strange?  (Read 1696 times)

Offline Cutty47

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Re: Anybody else noticing anything strange?
« Reply #20 on: July 23, 2007, 02:39:00 AM »
Saw a very thick bodied 4x4 whitetail at mid-day two days ago.  I live in good muley country, but in 4 years I've seen less than a handful of bucks that good at ANY time of day.

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Re: Anybody else noticing anything strange?
« Reply #21 on: July 23, 2007, 12:30:00 PM »
same here in Massachusetts,,,  thought it was the coyotes chasing the fawns and pushing the deer onto the highways but Hmmm now I'm not so sure.
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Re: Anybody else noticing anything strange?
« Reply #22 on: July 23, 2007, 12:34:00 PM »
Same in West Virginia.  I think the dry weather is forcing them to move more.

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Re: Anybody else noticing anything strange?
« Reply #23 on: July 23, 2007, 12:42:00 PM »
I think deer only move for a few reasons.  Food/Water/Mating/Pressure.  The moon or sun for that matter does not force a deer to move, they only increase the possibility.  One of those external stressors is causing them to move.
Bugs...maybe.  I have seen deer eaten up with bot flies bed down for hours.  I don't think bugs cause them to move.  IMO.
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Re: Anybody else noticing anything strange?
« Reply #24 on: July 23, 2007, 01:38:00 PM »
...in Wake County it's loss of habitat.  They're losing an acre per hour, for development. It's crazy. They say 98 new people move there every day.
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Re: Anybody else noticing anything strange?
« Reply #25 on: July 23, 2007, 01:53:00 PM »
I've seen a doe and fawn cross in front of me 2 days in a row around 10 o'clock and on the 3rd day seen the fawn dead on side of road, haven't seen the doe since then........stabow
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Re: Anybody else noticing anything strange?
« Reply #26 on: July 23, 2007, 02:32:00 PM »
I've seen a lot of roadkills this year.  Since spring there doesn't seem to be a day I don't see a roadkill deer.  It seems on the level of what I normally see around the rut.

Offline Bill Shepard

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Re: Anybody else noticing anything strange?
« Reply #27 on: July 23, 2007, 05:52:00 PM »
I've noticed raccoons and oppossums out during the day a lot more here in Western Washington.  

I had a state biologist tell me that many animals here, in the Pacific Northwest, are becoming more diurnal because it is easier for them to find food. He added it was because those animals were depending on peoples garbage for their meals instead of natural foraging.
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Re: Anybody else noticing anything strange?
« Reply #28 on: July 24, 2007, 07:09:00 AM »
Very sad stabow. Very sad.
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Re: Anybody else noticing anything strange?
« Reply #29 on: July 24, 2007, 07:21:00 AM »
Global warming is upon us!  :)  I really don't find it that unusual for this time of year.I used to spend a lot of time watching a large powerline for deer movement and was really surprised at how many deer would be out and about in the heat of the day during the summer months.

BTW.. There were 3 bucks run over near my house in the last couple of weeks during peak morning traffic hours in the RTP area.With our climate deer don't follow any typical routines.Look at the way the rut is stretched out over months now instead of weeks and you can see new born fawns in October at times.
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Re: Anybody else noticing anything strange?
« Reply #30 on: July 24, 2007, 09:51:00 AM »
I think its the cooler than normal weather here.  We are usually in the mid to upper nineties this time of year...and its actually been pleasant during the mornings..I don't think Al can use this in his next film.
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Re: Anybody else noticing anything strange?
« Reply #31 on: July 24, 2007, 10:07:00 AM »
Same here in East Texas. Be nice to be able to sleep late and hunt the mid-day..  :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:
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Re: Anybody else noticing anything strange?
« Reply #32 on: July 24, 2007, 12:07:00 PM »
We have had a lot of road kills here during the late morning and afternoon. It has been cool here and the humidity is ussually 85-89%..right now it's 38%, not that I am complaining !!!

The local power company has clear cut the powerlines that run parrallel to the major highway and I know alot of animals have been displaced because of it.
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Re: Anybody else noticing anything strange?
« Reply #33 on: July 24, 2007, 12:49:00 PM »
Ray,

Just cause it ain't truthful don't mean ole Al Bore can't use it! C'mon now hoss, yknow that never stopped a politician!  :)
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Re: Anybody else noticing anything strange?
« Reply #34 on: July 24, 2007, 01:21:00 PM »
There is just more game this year.Therefore there is more sightings.It's been my observation this goes in cycles. more game, less food,less area, more sightings.with the political issues, come less harvesting around urban areas. The cycles seem to be more extreme.Take varments for example.Fur isn't worth trapping for anymore.They populate in abundance and then die off in quick fashion from the mother nature process.That's my story and I'm stickin to it.   :confused:
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Re: Anybody else noticing anything strange?
« Reply #35 on: July 24, 2007, 04:54:00 PM »
Out here its been politicians!  There all over the place.  Day, night, high noon... whenever.
Heck, whats bad, is I've even had 'em crawl up onto my front porch.
I've heard they run in cycles of every four years.
Recon it'll slow down in about a year or so.
Hope so!  Olebow

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Re: Anybody else noticing anything strange?
« Reply #36 on: July 24, 2007, 05:31:00 PM »
Bigfoot came to town and paid his taxes a week early this year.  He usually waits till the last day.

Kinda strange, I guess.
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Re: Anybody else noticing anything strange?
« Reply #37 on: July 24, 2007, 07:12:00 PM »
I hear that Olebow! Should be some roadkill on some of those bums...now that wasn't nice, I apologize....

Out here in Oregon we don't have that problem with roadkill. We just ban hunting cats with dogs and baiting bear. Then the cat and bear population skyrockets and they kill off the the deer. Works real good.
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Re: Anybody else noticing anything strange?
« Reply #38 on: July 24, 2007, 07:19:00 PM »
Same thing in NE Ohio. I've noticed it for about the last six weeks. I've seen alot more hit on the road and out during midday
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Re: Anybody else noticing anything strange?
« Reply #39 on: July 25, 2007, 09:10:00 AM »
I've seen more deer in the last few weeks, here in the mountains of Western NC,than I saw all of last year. Mostly during mid day. I have also noticed that flowering plants, mostly native plants, are blooming 2 weeks to almost a month before they are supposed to.   Pat
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