Enough of this!

[Tom Flanigan]

We are getting a lot of snow in Pawling, NY and its not melting. Another snow storm tomorrow. I love the snow and like to see it but I worry about the deer if the snow continues to pile up without a thaw. I’m not worried about next years hunting, there are always plenty of deer. But I hate the thought of them slowly dying of starvation. We haven’t had a winter kill in many years. But this year we are getting a lot of snow.

This is an earlier picture taken in a timothy field before the snow began to pile up. The deer dig in the snow to get to the timothy. It gets harder as the snow gets deeper. The field is now really dug up, a lot more than when this picture was taken.

These are two of the four deer I took this year. I only shoot 3 ½ year old or older bucks.