Mom wanted to head out to the woods on Saturday and who could blame her. The sun was beaming, the snow was thinking about leaving and Steph was tied up with friends. So mom and I walked two spots and came out with one antler. First we walked up by the gravel pits to see just how much traffic there had been at the mineral site. The deer definitely know where it is now. This will be the fourth spring that the deer have used the site and there really isn't much left of the stump. I can't wait to see who strolls through there this year. I should get my cameras out in about another week or two. May 1st is almost here! That blows my mind. Last night we got another storm that donated us about 2-4" of sticky snow. School was two hours late on April 15th. What a contrast from last year!
Anyway, then mom and I parked on the road and walked north and east and north and east until we came up to the Little Hill. We skirted the south edge of the cedars and headed east until we hit the stump and continued along the south facing edge. Mom was checking out some isolated clusters of cedars when I walked slowly along a trail that I had about 10 times this winter. All of a sudden there lay an antler.
It took me two seconds to recognize which deer it was from - it was from the chunky wide spork that I found one side to in early January. Pretty cool to have both sides to a yearling. So that makes antler #12 for the season - 4 decent ones and 8 yearlings. We walked over to where I thought that 2 year old 8 would've dropped his antlers and had no luck. We'll definitely have to cover that spot one more time when all the snow goes, which will be around May 5-15. That's ridiculous! We are only going to have 2 weeks of "good" looking. Oh well. We'll take what we can get. We also found a dead bald eagle on the walk out. Looked like someone shot it from the highway.
