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It is against the law to shoot within 100 yards of a public road, but it makes very little difference to these indiscriminate poachers. Pickups with guns like this should be outlawed.
Location of the deer feeding spot is important. Ours is about 30 feet from a thicket, on the edge of the lawn. The deer prefer to be near wooded cover and would probably not come to food in the middle of a pasture except at night. We sometimes pjace feed down in a mown field about 300 yards from our terrace where we can watch the deer while we ourselves are outside. The ones closer by have to be watched from inside the house, and too much movement at windows can frighten them away, bounding in graceful leaps with white flags flying.
We have seen them feeding at both the near and distant locations at the same time, a special treat.
The morning I am writing this, I called my wife to see a doe with two nearly grown fawns standing close shoulder-to-shoulder, all three eating at the same time, casting alert stares at the house.
They seemed to take brief turns watching in our direction while the others ate the corn, dipping up and down, ears extended to catch any warning sound. They feed for only two to four minutes, consuming a relatively small amount of corn, then move slowly off, browsing on weed and brush tips.
It was probably the same doe we had fed in the spring when she appeared with two little light tan spotted fawns. Now in October the spots were gone and their coats were darkers.
Fawns in the summer are very playful and enjoy scampering around the lawn, sometimes chasing and even jumping over each other, always under the nervous and watchful eye of their mother. While we were sitting at dinner late one afternoon, we were entertained by one fawn that came bounding up to the edge of the terrace, nibbling at the flower plants a few feet from the door.
Illegal To Encloae I believe there is a law against keeping a deer in
captivity which would seem to preclude a fenced-in park. It is probably a good law because it would protect these lovely animals from
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