How smart are deer ?

[JasperMoon]

But his behavior towards me is not only during the rut. Spring, summer, fall his reaction to me is more one of curiosity. If only the 'rut', why hasn't anyone else even seen let alone shot him ? That's the answer I am hoping someone may suggest.

I believe he has bonded to you on youtube there is a youtube series called backyard deer witch might explain your senario greatly, they have good memorys aswell

 

[drumstick diva]

Sour ya mean there is more than one evil?? How so?

 

[sourland]

Sour ya mean there is more than one evil?? How so?

Oh, deedee, you're funnin' me. Of course there are many types of evil. Just a few: necessary, unnecessary, greater, lesser ----------------------------------------

 

[sourland]

Saw him today. He was bedded down in the brush just behind our pole barn. I had been back and forth a half dozen times when I happened to catch the glint of sun on his antlers. He still has not shed them. I stopped not 20' from him, and we had a bit of a conversation. He never moved.

 

[oldrooster]

Sour name him and say hello and make sure you call out a hello and use his name maybe he will start to respond to it esp, if you put a little grain or apples out once in a while when you see him and can call him by name not much not often and only when you see each other that way he won;t get killed by baiting and he gets to know you.

 

[sourland]

@oldrooster, Very originally, I call him 'Bucky' when I talk to him. I don't want to habituate him any more than he already has become. He was seen when we drove the ground for a fox several weeks ago. 'They' will be hunting him next year.

 

[drumstick diva]

Sour how about "see no evil?"

 

[sourland]

Apparently 'Bucky' sees no evil in me.

 

[drumstick diva]

Poor deer must be blind

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Sour, why are there no pictures in this thread?
i want to see Bucky
and i think you should look for his sheds, it'd be a neat thing to keep even after he is gone

and i really hope that nobody gets him