Camp kits and camp life by Hanks Charles Stedman 1856-1908

Author:Hanks, Charles Stedman, 1856-1908
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Camping
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's sons
Published: 1906-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

Deer Yards

satisfactorily explained, for it is not because of the tender shoots which spring up, as they are often found there as soon as the ground has cooled.

During the fall and early winter they frequent hard-wood ridges in search of beechnuts and acorns, and when the snow is too deep to paw away or the crust breaks through and cuts their legs, they herd in cedar swamps, where they are protected from the storms and winds—these deer yards, so called, being innumerable deer paths, sometimes two or three miles long, crossing and recrossing each other in every direction. Some of these paths go to favorite springs, as they never quench their thirst with snow, and others to feeding places where they browse upon cedar boughs, on the moss hanging from the branches of trees, on the twigs which are just above the snow, on the bark of various trees, particularly basswood and maple, and on the tops of the trees which have fallen in the tangle of the swamp. When the snow begins to disappear in the early spring they again make for the south side of the hard-wood ridges for nuts, and when new grass shows itself, they feed on this until the buds appear on the trees, when they gradually work their way into the valleys nearer the streams and ponds, in summer time feeding where succulent roots of lily pads and other aquatic plants are. To these places they love to go at dusk to escape the flies, and to splash and paddle in the water, in the middle of the day resting in shady nooks in the forests.

In the spring the doe generally gives birth to two fawns, with which she remains during the summer.

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