The Circle of Life begins anew . . .

[Gary Laudermilch]

Here is a tidbit of knowledge I bet you did not know. I know I did not. Penn State has an ongoing deer/forest research project. They have a blog site dedicated to the work they are doing. They have dispelled so many old wives tales it is amazing. According to a post they had a while back if you see a doe with a fawn(s) after they are weaned, which is generally by mid July, there is only a 50% chance the doe is the mother of the fawns. Apparently fawns will hook up with another doe and run with her a while. I never would have guessed.

There is a whole bunch of good stuff on the research blog site. A recent post had to do with moon phase and deer movement. According to their gps data analysis the moon has no effect on deer movement.