A couple days before our first snow storm of this season, our backwoods cameras caught some of the action behind our house. As mentioned before, this is mating season (I did not realize until this year that it coincides with hunting season). About 8pm in the evening, left image, a doe is caught passing through. Then, around mid-night, a buck comes by.

We have had only one hunter working our area this year so far (two weeks done and about two weeks to go) and I have not seen our neighbor or his kids at all (this is important to note because our backwoods is adjacent to their property and subject to their hunting attentions). Of course, during the year, we see deer, mostly does, on almost every patrol. With our recent snow, the evidence of multitudes of targets is all around us. Turkeys and beavers are also in the evidence.