June 26th has a certain significance to me. It is my wedding anniversary. So it is a bit odd that I would find myself out in a hedgerow surrounded by soybeans on this particular evening. I had just chosen a location and gotten myself settled in to await what I hoped would be the arrival of some of the neighborhood mature bucks when my phone vibrated once. It was alerting me that I had a new text, it was from my wife and it read something like this, "OMG it's our anniversary I totally forgot."...Clearly that made two of us! Moments like that are when I am most grateful for my wife because she generally takes what could be a serious issue in a lot of relationships and does not bust my chops about it at all. We texted briefly about our crazy lives and then I settled in to wait.
I had fairly high expectations for this location as a premier scouting location because of its commanding view of three separate soybean fields. All of which are directly adjacent to excellent bedding cover. At 6:30 A lone doe entered the field directly in front of me and began to move in my direction> She made it to about sixty yards before ending up directly in my wind. She quickly decided to feed elsewhere. check her out.
You can see a lot of flies on her, which is pretty normal for this time of year. she never gave any indication that she had a fawn nearby but she looks to bemature so I would guess that she had one stashed somewhere.
As prime time approached several groups of deer entered the fields. Unfortunately none of these groups were bucks. I watched until dusk and then took an opportunity to sneak out with out disturbing most of the deer in the field.
It did get me to thinking about bachelor group positioning from year to year. I will try to elaborate more on this tomorrow.
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