Maple Leaves
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Maple Leaves
So one of the things I have heard Dan say in a podcast (I believe Greg Miller as well) is that the best early season food source, even more so than acorns, are sugar maple leaves. I am wondering if this is something that applies to all maples or if it really is specifically sugar maples that get the deer in? Red maples are much easier to find the area that I hunt so if I can find a sugar maple it might be that much more valuable…any thoughts?
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I’ve never seen it and we have a lot of sugar maple in places. I can’t imagine it would be any maple probably just sugar maple and must be in certain areas not in my area
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Not sure about maple trees, but I've seen them hammer the buckthorn leaves at certain times of the late fall.
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Yes Maybe leaves are definitely a food source. I’ve seen them eat on them numerous times. Witch hazel and buckthorn are others as well
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I'm not great at identifying sugar maples from the other Maple species that we have here in the south,but I have seen deer feeding on Maple leaves, even during the middle of the day
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On my home property, when I cut lanes or hinge a maple, the leaves are gone in just a few days. The deer hammer them. My property is mainly Red Maple, the love it.
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Big woods deer hammer young maple shoots, although generally green. I found a good buck’s core area and it looked like a weed wacker went through the young maples at a 3 foot height in a 10 acre opening,
Never saw them eat the leaves that literally just fell, but I think it has something to do with the sugars in the leaves. Downside of a lot of the places I hunt is that maples are really common, so finding the one they decide tastes the best is like finding a needle in a stack of needles.
Never saw them eat the leaves that literally just fell, but I think it has something to do with the sugars in the leaves. Downside of a lot of the places I hunt is that maples are really common, so finding the one they decide tastes the best is like finding a needle in a stack of needles.
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I've seen them pick the leaves off of trees when they first started to turn in. Especially in northern Wisconsin big woods. Have seen them eat them in southern Wisconsin ag country but never specifically targeted that pattern. It possible if you had a small isolated stand of then maybe it would concentrate deer around them when the time is right but I cant say I've personally witnessed it tho. I'm probably missing something but the areas I know with maple have lots of maples generally so I would think it may be hard to target that pattern specifically.
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Not to sure I would say a better draw than acorns... However, sugar maples can be a huge draw, but its a short window, and whether that helps you or not is dependent on how many maples you have, and if they are in isolated patches... It is only sugar maples I refer to, and it is only about a 1 week occorance right when heavy leaf drop occurs...
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dan wrote:Not to sure I would say a better draw than acorns... However, sugar maples can be a huge draw, but its a short window, and whether that helps you or not is dependent on how many maples you have, and if they are in isolated patches... It is only sugar maples I refer to, and it is only about a 1 week occorance right when heavy leaf drop occurs...
This could helps me as my forest has no Oaks but some Maples. Mostly Birch and Pines
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I've seen it in a few places. The common denominator between the spots was sugar maples and isolated. A lot of stuff I used to hunt was mostly oak and cherry. So a small cluster of sugar maples gave them something different. Like Dan said, it seems short lived.
Same goes with mast ID. A lot of guys can spot an oak tree but can't get on the deer because they are hammering a white oak or chestnut oak down the ridge.
I had a spot that had like 4 chestnut oaks on it. When those trees were dropping, it was on fire.
I went from having a couple does and fawns behind my house to having a deer farm. Literally have to chase them off the driveway to park the truck. Why? A large white oak was dropping. Deer came from all over. It was interesting to see the shift in my own yard.
Same goes with mast ID. A lot of guys can spot an oak tree but can't get on the deer because they are hammering a white oak or chestnut oak down the ridge.
I had a spot that had like 4 chestnut oaks on it. When those trees were dropping, it was on fire.
I went from having a couple does and fawns behind my house to having a deer farm. Literally have to chase them off the driveway to park the truck. Why? A large white oak was dropping. Deer came from all over. It was interesting to see the shift in my own yard.
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