Deer - Count them!

[Doug]

Oh, I think the picture is certainly real and not a photoshop product. If people start feeding deer in or near a deer yard there are going to be LOTS of hungry deer showing up for dinner!

If anybody from the Haliburton area sees this, I would be interested to know if it might be a picture from last year's Haliburton hunters winter deer feeding program. It sure looks like that part of the country........

Doug

 

[Boom-Boom]

BS I'm about 45 mins from North Hatley , Way too much snow in that pic . That has to have been photoshopped , Anticosti Island dosn't even have that kind of concentration .

And if it were Anticosti Island, they'd be smaller too....

BB

 

[John Y Cannuck]

Oh, I think the picture is certainly real and not a photoshop product. If people start feeding deer in or near a deer yard there are going to be LOTS of hungry deer showing up for dinner!

If anybody from the Haliburton area sees this, I would be interested to know if it might be a picture from last year's Haliburton hunters winter deer feeding program. It sure looks like that part of the country........

Doug

I just sent an email to a couple of buddies, claiming to have shot the pic just up the road from our camp.
My point is that there are a lot of small areas that look like that.

 

[a_slugs_life]

I wish I had more than my POS camera phone today, it was too cold to work so we too a drive up to our cottage. People around the lake are feeding them and one guy had at least 100 deer at different feeders all over the property. Don't seem them like that when they're in season...

 

[mahony1977]

I stuck my foot in my mouth .

Was up at my grandfathers & he pulled out a copy of the Brome county new's , or Sherbrooke record can't remember witch .Anyway low and behold that exact picture was in the paper .

 

[eastwind]

A few years back, we had a tough winter on deer and a lot of our outdoor groups were feeding deer all over our area. To see a pic like this was an average feeding site. I was also feeding deer and as soon as the deer heard the feed pails rattling, they'd be out to eat. some would be hungrier than other's and I'd have to walk around them ( within 2-3 feet) to spread out the alfalfa pellets. We also feed them wheat, oats, alfalfa bales. All the feed was donated.

 

[ki11ercane]

Bird's Hill Provincial Park. About 10km outside of Winnipeg.

 

[Turbo]

Bird's Hill Provincial Park. About 10km outside of Winnipeg.

I worked at BHPP for 7 years and can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that this was not taken in BHPP. Yes these kinds of numbers exist in that area, but that location is not within park boundaries.

 

[BigUglyMan]

I see 81

 

[1duckslayer]

Where ever? When ever? Far too many deer in one area to maintain a healthy herd.

I see twice that many deer in one spot every year!!!!! Not uncommon at all in the winter, even without people placing feed out.
Slayer

 

[Canadian Bush Wacker]

I see two bucks, one far right and one at the far far back at the top of the hill almost

 

[AKD]

Taken somewhere, a while ago......

ide run at them scaring them to scatter like a kid in a park full of pigeons

 

[Hawk]

Ive seen 200 - 250 deer in the feed yards around Port Loring Ontario in March.

Hawk Down

 

[ki11ercane]

I worked at BHPP for 7 years and can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that this was not taken in BHPP. Yes these kinds of numbers exist in that area, but that location is not within park boundaries.

Had this happen with another CGN member over 7.62X51mm SA "match" ammo I had, claiming even though the box had "match" on the box, it wasn't true. Sadly that discussion didn't end well either.

I only know what my wife's cousin said when the pic was taken, and my response when I saw it and how close it was to home. I wasn't there to snap the photo, so I guess there is a remote chance my wife's cousin is full of crap.

 

[senior]

More deer
Notice the funny ones in the background !

 

[SuperCub]

I count 65ish.





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[Canadian Bush Wacker]

Those are not deer in the back ground,lol

 

[sealhunter]

There were in 53 in the field behind my house this morning.
When I got home tonight they were all leaving almost in single file.

 

[grinrgrn]

BS, Anticosti Island dosn't even have that kind of concentration .

ummmm...do you actually know anything about northern whitetail deer???FYI,in NB alone there are close to 900 identified Deer Wintering Areas(DWAs) more commonly known as deer yards,where deer will gather in groups ranging in size from a 1/2 dozen to several hundred animals during the harshest part of winter(Jan-Mar)seeking food,shelter,and perhaps the relative security from predation of safety in numbers.Radio-collar studies have shown some deer migrate up to 50km and more to reach traditional DWAs.Anticosti most certainly does have that many deer and more in some yards.

 

[mahony1977]

ummmm...do you actually know anything about northern whitetail deer???FYI,in NB alone there are close to 900 identified Deer Wintering Areas(DWAs) more commonly known as deer yards,where deer will gather in groups ranging in size from a 1/2 dozen to several hundred animals during the harshest part of winter(Jan-Mar)seeking food,shelter,and perhaps the relative security from predation of safety in numbers.Radio-collar studies have shown some deer migrate up to 50km and more to reach traditional DWAs.Anticosti most certainly does have that many deer and more in some yards.

Know enough to put one in the freezer nearly every year . Maybe ( DWAs ) are common in you'r neck of the woods . Around here the deer seem to be able to sustain themselves .

The most i have ever seen together during the winter months , is about a dozen or so in my cedar stand grazeing the bowe's . After haveing read the article that accompanied the photograph . I would have to agree with you about them traveling several miles to congragate at such a wintering area or ( DWA ) .