The Hunt Is On

It is the season opener and it is just not right. The temp is 54 degrees, the sun is shinning and the grass is green! Deer hunting is supposed to be danged cold with snow covered ground! Hey I'm not complaining but the hunters may be. This warm weather makes it difficult to track a deer that has been shot and it just messes with their regular rutting patterns.
Len, Kel and Julia arrived Thursday night. On Friday morning David and Lenny took a drive to scope out an alternate hunting spot and to check for signs of deer at that spot. They had not been gone 30 minutes when Kel spotted a nice doe in our back yard. I saw a second doe run through the woods and a bit later there was a nice buck drinking out of the pond. After he left another buck came through the back yard obviously after a doe. I got the binoculars out and saw that his neck was quite thick and he was...well he was salivating...I am sure that there is a hunting term for it but what do I know!
Here is the first buck that we saw.
And of course this morning neither Dave nor Lenny saw a single deer. Dave says he spooked some out of their beds when he was going to his stand but do we believe him???
Since the day was gorgeous yesterday we all took a walk in the woods (the season started today so we were safe in the woods:) Julia loved the woods and would have preferred to walk without holding onto daddy. Here is Julia peeking around a tree at grandma.

And here she is trying her walking legs out on our driveway with a good tight grip on the leaf.
More later with a better deer report...we hope.