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Post by HighCotton on Dec 31, 2019 7:30:12 GMT -5
I kept track of the deer pics we captured on 2 trail cameras during Muzzleloader season. It seems that some great deer vac has come along on the property and sucked up all the deer.
With daytime sightings down, at the end of Firearms season, I got curious and decided to track the nocturnal vs daytime activity.
Total deer pics numbered 252.
218 of those were nocturnal.
87% nocturnal.
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Post by duff on Dec 31, 2019 7:50:59 GMT -5
That was my entire season. 100% on the bigger bucks.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2019 7:51:29 GMT -5
I kept track of the deer pics we captured on 2 trail cameras during Muzzleloader season. It seems that some great deer vac has come along on the property and sucked up all the deer. With daytime sightings down, at the end of Firearms season, I got curious and decided to track the nocturnal vs daytime activity. Total deer pics numbered 252. 218 of those were nocturnal. 87% nocturnal. Deer are survivors, and after they`ve been hunted and pressured from October 1, then with all the activity and pressure during firearms, small wonder they hunker down until hunters leave the woods and fields to move about. |
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Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Dec 31, 2019 9:12:57 GMT -5
I don't have any kind of stats like that, but the last week of muzzleloader season I was seeing a lot of late morning and midday movement while I was just out and about. Had a decent buck in my yard at 10 AM one morning.
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Post by ukwil on Dec 31, 2019 9:20:08 GMT -5
I hunted here in a reduction program during the same time frame. Running a camera over corn and I bet 95% of mine were at night.
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Post by jjas on Dec 31, 2019 9:31:32 GMT -5
Deer are pressured to some extent almost year round in some places today. Most hunters I know are either hunting deer, scouting for deer, working on stands, food plots and/or other improvements.
Throw in the fact that many people are running/checking cameras seemingly year round and it's no surprise to me that deer are more and more nocturnal.
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Post by deadeer on Dec 31, 2019 10:20:29 GMT -5
I don't have any kind of stats like that, but the last week of muzzleloader season I was seeing a lot of late morning and midday movement while I was just out and about. Had a decent buck in my yard at 10 AM one morning. Same here in the NW. I have seen more 10-2 deer this year than I ever remember. |
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Post by firstwd on Dec 31, 2019 11:12:15 GMT -5
A big thing a lot of people seem to not include in their assessments is the time of year. A bunch of people compare their summer sightings to November sightings. Deer do go nocturnal, but so does the majority of the day during that time of year.
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Post by tynimiller on Dec 31, 2019 12:49:56 GMT -5
Sure I notice some daytime movement downward trends, but I'm sorry if a property totally shuts down as described that property is terrible for deer in one or multiple ways. I haven't done a camera pull all over my property but I can assure you I've seen and have pictures of deer moving in daylight every year and it typically gets better mid-November onward with big bucks especially due to habitat and pressure being intensely controlled.
Now that is my personal property...another we don't own but hunt experience similar, but typically becomes last hour or first hour type movement and a few other places are terrible during gun season but should be honestly. Mature closed canopy woods with not much under story or successional growth providing late season woody brows and/or cover as well. We also don't control the hunting pressure and entrance/exit routes there as a few others hunt it.
Habitat and pressure...one or both things can DESTROY deer usage of a property honestly at any time of year, but especially once they feel hunted.
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Post by esshup on Dec 31, 2019 13:17:24 GMT -5
I'd be willing to bet Whitetails are considered to be either nocturnal or crepuscular.
Like it was said above, I'll bet that if you put a time of day on seeing deer moving it won't change much from June 21st to Dec 22nd. But since the sun changes that's why the majority of deer are moving at night in the winter.
I do believe that it has a lot to do with moon phase too. I see more deer moving 10 am - 2 pm during full moon cycles than no moon.
Running trail cams, in fields and in woods I see earlier movement (time of day in regards to daylight) in the woods vs in the fields. BUT if I had to put a number on daytime vs. night time movement I'd say 80% to 90+% from summer to winter, with increased hunting pressure adding to the night time movement.
Think about it for a minute genetically speaking. We as hunters are constantly culling out the daytime moving deer, I have pictures of large bucks that are never seen during daylight. I also have pictures of OLD does that are never on cam during the day.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2019 13:24:42 GMT -5
I just watched 7 does eating as they cut through the back woods patch. Hill faces the southeast and out of the wind. All pasted within 20 yards of my stand. Good to see the deer are getting used to all the changes this year.
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Post by parrothead on Dec 31, 2019 13:58:14 GMT -5
I have been doing all day sets since 21 and i by far have seen most of the deer between 11 and 2 with evening time being next. Have 3 does eating right now
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Post by coaldust on Jan 1, 2020 8:11:35 GMT -5
I kept track of the deer pics we captured on 2 trail cameras during Muzzleloader season. It seems that some great deer vac has come along on the property and sucked up all the deer. With daytime sightings down, at the end of Firearms season, I got curious and decided to track the nocturnal vs daytime activity. Total deer pics numbered 252. 218 of those were nocturnal. 87% nocturnal. deer are nocturnal especially mature bucks. The only reason you see bucks at all is that magic time when they lose their mind & are looking for love. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2020 12:18:21 GMT -5
I kept track of the deer pics we captured on 2 trail cameras during Muzzleloader season. It seems that some great deer vac has come along on the property and sucked up all the deer. With daytime sightings down, at the end of Firearms season, I got curious and decided to track the nocturnal vs daytime activity. Total deer pics numbered 252. 218 of those were nocturnal. 87% nocturnal. deer are nocturnal especially mature bucks. The only reason you see bucks at all is that magic time when they lose their mind & are looking for love. I don`t know that deer are necessarily nocturnal unless pressured by hunters, but maybe. |
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Post by steiny on Jan 1, 2020 13:17:51 GMT -5
Deer for the most part are nocturnal, it's a natural survival instinct, but human activity is the key. I hunt multiple states every year and the spookiest, most nocturnal, most paranoid deer I encounter are the Indiana deer around my home where the hunting pressure is so high.
Much better daytime movement in remote, less populated, less hunted areas that we hunt in Kansas and southern Illinois. I'm sure there are some better remote areas in Indiana where it's much better, but not in my neighborhood.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2020 14:33:06 GMT -5
Deer for the most part are nocturnal, it's a natural survival instinct, but human activity is the key. I hunt multiple states every year and the spookiest, most nocturnal, most paranoid deer I encounter are the Indiana deer around my home where the hunting pressure is so high. Much better daytime movement in remote, less populated, less hunted areas that we hunt in Kansas and southern Illinois. I'm sure there are some better remote areas in Indiana where it's much better, but not in my neighborhood. I`ve read studies that claim that up to 40% of deer movement in unpressured areas have been determined by radio telemetry studies to be during daylight. Dunno how true that is, but it`s been published as such. |
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Post by INhuntin on Jan 1, 2020 16:54:10 GMT -5
I have noticed on public land that not only do deer go nocturnal on public land they move out totality.
Around all the water holes that get tracked up if I walk over them (kinda a cancel them out) the next day there are no new tracks. This kinda explains why after the first week of gun season why we don't see any deer on public land.
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Post by firstwd on Jan 1, 2020 18:35:19 GMT -5
I have noticed on public land that not only do deer go nocturnal on public land they move out totality. Around all the water holes that get tracked up if I walk over them (kinda a cancel them out) the next day there are no new tracks. This kinda explains why after the first week of gun season why we don't see any deer on public land. This kinda happens on all land during gun season. That is why some properties that shouldn't see a lot of deer do. They get pushed off of other properties. |
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Post by tynimiller on Jan 1, 2020 23:49:02 GMT -5
I have noticed on public land that not only do deer go nocturnal on public land they move out totality. Around all the water holes that get tracked up if I walk over them (kinda a cancel them out) the next day there are no new tracks. This kinda explains why after the first week of gun season why we don't see any deer on public land. Muzzleloader season has always been when I have went and hunted public lands, and have been successful. Some areas no doubt may be as you describe, but definitely not all. The two main ones I have hunted are not so. |
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Post by swilk on Jan 2, 2020 16:22:16 GMT -5
Pressure. Pressure. Pressure.
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