Deer / Fence Collision

The same night/morning that I got pictures of the big buck in the previous post, a deer damaged our chain link fence.

I was outside and noticed some deep tracks in my yard (still very soft ground) and knew I had some activity overnight.  What I noticed is the last track near my north fence was about eight feet from the fence.  I thought "wow", that was some jump.

I had my head down looking around the yard and was on the south side and saw hair.  Deer hair.
Then I looked up and some the top rail of our fence bent pretty badly.  A deer tried to jump the fence and missed badly.  Our neighbors have a dog with a doggy door and we heard it around 11 o'clock.  It might have spooked a deer enough to miss a jump  They like the bird feeders right next to fence.  That's all I can reason because they can clear the fences with ease from what I've seen.

Here are "crime scene" photos:

First up is the distance before the successful jump out of our yard...

 

Seemed like more than rabbit hair...

 

 

Big Buck

It was foggy early morning on Sunday the 17th.  I hadn't put my trail camera out for awhile due to the weather so I thought I would see what might pass through.


My son-in-law Steve commented after seeing the pictures below that this may be the best buck I've gotten pictures of yet.

Also appearing the night before was this buck...