When I reached the island I followed the edge and on the far SW edge (NW Wind) I kicked out four antlerless deer. I got a good look at them as they headed across the cattails, no antlers. I found where they were bedding (four beds in a circle). Here are two of the beds top and bottom of the pic.
I definitely thought does, but I found this very fresh track in one of the beds (one of the four beds was much larger too)
I finished circling the island and jumped one more deer, it was a doe.
Very strange, I kept breaking through the ice in the cattails, it has been very cold the last few days and it was 5-8 degrees when I was scouting. The larger areas of water (ditches and ponds) were frozen solid, but in the cattails every so often I would break through the ice. I found two options on the island I can hunt, the far south end I can get in a tree. The north end I will have to hunt in the cattails.
Cold out, but nice and sunny. Not a bad way to spend a few hours.
