Of Missy and Fawns, Part 3

Hello!  So, last time I posted about Missy, it was mostly about her in the month of November.  But the title is "Of Missy and Fawns."  So I thought I'd do a little of the fawns as well, along with Missy.

Anyway, the season comes on, and I am now pretty well acquainted with the fawns.  I begin to notice that Missy didn't have two doe fawns, but one is a buck.  As you can see here:

Knowing his momma, he should be a nice deer in a couple years.  After the season, if I remember right, we were all inside about 5:30pm and dad notices that three deer are outside in our yard.  Missy and fawns (and possibly another doe, I couldn't tell if it was the buck fawn or another doe with her). Here are a couple pictures my dad took:

And a good old black and white

As time passes, I kept my camera out very little during the spring in the main area Missy was visiting, keeping my main attention on a funnel cam.  But, I wanted to see the new fawns, so I thought I'd put my camera back out there once more:

I'll make an educated guess on who this is :)

Unfortunatley, my camera I have posted at the main mineral site Missy visits only likes to get pictures of me when I check the camera, so I don't have any more pictures at the moment.  My other cam is watching a funnel for me that has some nice bucks passing through it often, and I hope to get one come archery season!

Of Missy and Fawns- Part 2

Well, now let's see the other part of Missy's story.  I told you guys I'd pickup the story starting in November of last year.  I left off in September, so why November, when October is in the middle? Well, I was on vacation half of that month and I didn't have my camera's out.  So here we go:

I read in a book called "Whitetails: From Ground to Gun" by Craig and Neil Dougherty where they were talking about shooting does, and the subject of sweet momma does came up.  After reading about how they've seen does come as regular visitor to the backyard and bringing up their fawns well, and how they have never been able to pull the trigger on one.  After reading that, I pretty much told myself that I might never be able to pull the trigger on Missy.  I did once, and luckily missed, because I would have regretted it if I got her.  I'm not doing that again.

About midway through November, hunting season in full swing, I was heading out to an area on another side of the property I hunt.  It was about 4:30 pm, and I pretty much knew what time deer would appear where I was going. I had to pass my feeder and didn't think much about it, as I didn't have any pictures of deer coming around that time. Sure enough; Missy, her two fawns, and another doe were already there:

Here are deer at my feeder, at a time I never recorded before.

And I pass near them and I see tail's flashing, are you kidding me?!?

A week and a half later I didn't get up to hunt the stand in front of that feeder because I was to tired.  AKA, I just wanted to sleep in.  I hardly ever want to wake up at 5:30 AM or earlier, no matter the season.  I woke up an hour later and looked outside, and guess what...

You can't see it in the picture, but the other doe is there as well

I could see them from my bedroom window.  I thought to myself "AHHH!!  Four deer are out there and you could've possibly got one!!"  After that, I told myself I WAS going to go out there the next morning.  Though I had warm hunting clothes on and multiple layers, I froze that morning (cold breeze on a 29 degree morning in a treestand with no wind break, fun right?).  20 minutes into it, my hands were ice.  15 minutes after that, I'm getting pretty cold myself.  But, around 7 o'clock, an hour into my sit, I found out that my hunt would not disappoint.  No, it was not Missy, but I had prayed a few minutes before for a deer, and lo and behold, a few minutes later, I get my first buck!

Adrenaline rush is the explanation for how I was able to spend the rest of the day in a t-shirt outside while getting the meat off the deer. Not to mention the fire dad had going on outside, I did the work near the fire, it felt great!

But back to Missy, she came back that night, possibly knowing that the annoying teenage buck Joe wasn't coming back or wasn't at their evening meeting.  I'll never know.

I told you she was a sweet momma!  Believe me now?  :)

That's November for you, and that's all for now!

Of Missy and Fawns- Part 1

I was looking over some of my past posts and I saw a couple with a doe I call "Missy."  I only mentioned her a little bit in each, and I called her "by-now-famous."  Well, she's not if you don't know her!  Many of you will think I'm crazy that I'm writing about a post about one particular deer, but hear me out.

So, last year around this time, I had gotten some pictures of this one doe, the biggest on the property as I'd seen.  After getting tired of calling her "the big doe" I just called her "Missy", a name that I had no particular reason for choosing, it just came to mind.

After I had gotten multiple pictures of her, I realized that she had two fawns with her as well.  Like their momma, nice and healthy.  So now, I was even more interested in watching Missy and her fawns.  And that's what I did, I watched them grow.

I was able to track her because of the dark spot on her shoulder

Sometimes Missy and her fawns would come multiple times a night. Anyway, not long after this 8/30 picture, I had a personal encounter with the fawns.  I was going down to put more corn in the feeder, and I got a surprise, the fawns were there.  I was able to get within 20 feet of them. They ran away, but I knew they wouldn't go far and that they'd be back, and sure enough:

Fawns eating

I "scare" the fawns away

Ta'da!  They're back!

As the time went on, I kept getting more pictures of them.  I even got one of her nursing a fawn.

Apparently Missy doesn't mind sharing with a raccoon.

I think this is the best trail cam picture I've ever gotten.

I think that's it for now, next I'll share about November 2014 till now!

Something New On Camera!

Since nothing is really going on right now, (except if your into turkey hunting or spring bass fishing, things are heating up) I thought I'd share some more pictures.  There's something new this time!

We now observe the wild little brother in natural habitat!

I'm gonna say that this is our by-now-famous Missy and fawns

Funny thing is, the place where I put the camera is right down the driveway.  I got multiple pictures, but just thought I'd show a couple.  My little brother, whom you see pictured, thought that it wouldn't take pictures of him because it was a deer camera.  I told him it's a motion detection system, and he said "but, I thought it was just a deer camera to take pictures of deer!"  Nope.

New Camera, New Stuff

Hello everyone!  I got a new camera on Black Friday last year.  Haven't used it till now.  It takes moderate pictures, but it has a cool video feature.  Here are a couple I got of a Missy and a buck last night:

And the one with Missy:

As you can see, the buck was skiddish around the camera, but Missy and her fawns are fine.  That's probably because they grew up seeing it all summer, fall, and winter!

November Pictures

I've been out twice this month, once was more of a scouting walk in a property that I was somewhat unfamiliar with.  Both times I've seen deer.  I've shot one already with my bow, but it was a behind where I wanted the arrow to go (my fault).  I tried to trail the doe the next morning, but no blood trail or anything.  And I mean nothing...at...all to help me find that deer.  I was disappointed, but still reported a harvest.  But anyway, enough of that, here are some pictures I recently got on my camera.

I'm thinking that this was a button buck, just by looking at the head.

I'm almost positive this a doe I call "Missy" she comes by often.

This is Missy's fawn, she has the biggest fawns I've ever seen.

I'm making a very good educated guess on the last two pictures.  Missy and her fawns come by often, probably more often than any other deer at my camera.  Missy is also the biggest deer I've seen this year and her fawns are like their mom, big (no offence Missy) and healthy.  The cool thing is I can track whether or not a doe it Missy is on her left side there is a black spot on her shoulder.  And she has the big fawns, as you can probably see.

That's all for now!  Keep hunting as the rut heats up!