I'll have to pay attention this fall about the leaf drop, but I have seen the power of maple browse when made available. This summer I did some hinge cutting on our farm in some open woods. 90% of what I chose to cut were young maples. I hoped to have alot of thick greenery with all the leaves on when I cut, but I returned s couple weeks later and there wasn't a leaf on any of them or any on the ground. All eaten. I happened to have cut a couple in front of a camera overlooking a salt lick and the pics revealed a bachelor group of 8 young bucks eating them in the first two days after I cut them.
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Great pic. Most of my maples are still holding. My acorn crop is light.
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Singing Bridge wrote:Great pic. Most of my maples are still holding. My acorn crop is light.
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The interesting part is? Deer have been pounding apples for 3-4 days straight. And it looks like they have shifted off them again. Week ago, deer walked right past all of the apples to feed on acorns.
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mainebowhunter wrote:The interesting part is? Deer have been pounding apples for 3-4 days straight. And it looks like they have shifted off them again. Week ago, deer walked right past all of the apples to feed on acorns.
That sounds like a real good reason to keep a journal. You might pick up on a yearly trend in deer feeding. Maybe, every "ACORN YEAR" they find the existing apples the 2nd week of October? Maybe, every "APPLE YEAR" they find acorns the last week of September? Who knows?
With all the bedding areas you have found, you could possibly relate all that back to bedding and predict when certain bedding spots will be occupied?
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The main area I hunt has very little for agriculture. No apple trees. Terrible acorn year . But there are lots of maples around, maybe even too much, lots of leaves already on the ground, so maples and clear cuts are the only food sources I can think of to target. I never knew deer ate maple leaves until I read about it on the Beast.
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john1984 wrote:The main area I hunt has very little for agriculture. No apple trees. Terrible acorn year . But there are lots of maples around, maybe even too much, lots of leaves already on the ground, so maples and clear cuts are the only food sources I can think of to target. I never knew deer ate maple leaves until I read about it on the Beast.
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Good post- maple leaves are raining down here in midmichigan. I'm seeing young bucks in daylight chowing down early and late in the day on maple leaves.
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2016 hunted SE mass and southern Maine. ZERO acorns in Mass which totally killed a couple spots i had planned, the deer stayed on agriculture / back yard gardens most of the fall. In Maine, the most acorns I've ever seen and ZERO apples. crazy that this is only 90 minutes away and generally the same weather patterns /temps. Never heard of them eating maple leaves before. HB +1
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