dan wrote:Octang wrote:This thread has been exceptionally helpful!
I found this bed a few weeks ago on the edge of some really thick shrubs. You can see the shrub behind the bed in the photo, however upon walking around the bed there are multiple other bedding spots leaning up against the same shrub. Is this doe bedding because there are multiple beds? Or could/would a buck use the same shrub as a backdrop to face different directions depending on the wind?
Thats buck bedding... The bushes are against the back. Wind over the obstacle. A doe group would be a little more open with each doe lokking a different direction. Does will bed in buck beds sometimes, but those are buck beds.
Awesome thanks! As a general rule - I can assume if there is something up against the back of the bed then it is a buck bed?
(Seriously, I've learned more in the few months that I've been on this forum than my past 20 years since I first stepped in the woods)