The Real winter of Central NY finally showed itself starting in Mid-January - until today, when we now have on the ground an honest 3-4 ft of snow.You can see from the picture to the left from 2-18, that the deer have abandoned the corn plots now - they have switched to woody browse.
Any corn that is left, will be used up when the snows melt back in 3-4 weeks. Then the deer will go back and paw for clover & rye in the other plots too.
My Cuddeback has taken some pictures of several bucks coming to the corn before the snows got real deep. The 10 Point on the left was never seen during hunting season, and I never had a cam picture of him. He should be a nice buck next fall!
Below is a nice Coyote on the same trail. There was a dead doe nearby the corn field, that the coyotes were feeding on. I only got a couple pictures of them coming and going though.
Another look at the 10 point - leaving the corn field at the end of January - Still before the heavy snows fell. The Corn was getting some serious use until the 3-4 ft of snow fell between 2-10 and 2-17.
A few other bucks showed up - some with only one antler. Some of the other does & fawns that came to feed every night are pictured below.
This fawn found the camera!
