I'm increasings the odds of getting a good deer picture
Apr 7, 2020 13:37:29 #
I live on an isolated hill top surrounded hundreds of acres of woods and farms. I have cut a long trail into the woods that I frequently walk with a camera in my hands. The deer can hear me coming and run away from me. I have never got a good picture of a deer while walking my trail. I have gotten a few good shot when the deer come near my house.
To increase my odds of getting a good deer photo I put up a deer feeder yesterday. There is 40 pounds of feed corn with molasses in that thing. I have a 600mm f/4 lens that I can use in the house and point it out a window. I have been looking out the widow looking for wildlife to discover the feeder. Nothing yet:
To increase my odds of getting a good deer photo I put up a deer feeder yesterday. There is 40 pounds of feed corn with molasses in that thing. I have a 600mm f/4 lens that I can use in the house and point it out a window. I have been looking out the widow looking for wildlife to discover the feeder. Nothing yet:
Apr 7, 2020 13:46:48 #
I live in similar conditions. All you need is a flower garden and water feature. They come within ten feet of the house - to the point I rarely (unless terminally bored) take deer pix anymore. There are also food plot kits, but I'd put that elsewhere on the property if I needed it. Appears you have found a neat solution in your situation.
Apr 7, 2020 13:52:01 #
Davethehiker wrote:
I live on an isolated hill top surrounded hundreds... (show quote)
I don't known the laws in Pennsylvania, but here in New York State that is a no no to have a feed like that. If you have it set up for camera, that camera can become a rifle.
Apr 7, 2020 13:58:39 #
Apr 7, 2020 14:06:16 #
quixdraw wrote:
I live in similar conditions. All you need is a flower garden and water feature. They come within ten feet of the house - to the point I rarely (unless terminally bored) take deer pix anymore. There are also food plot kits, but I'd put that elsewhere on the property if I needed it. Appears you have found a neat solution in your situation.
There is a running stream past the far side of the house. The deer can fill up on corn the cross past my house down into a valley and get a drink of water. Yes, the deer do eat our flowers.
Apr 7, 2020 14:19:25 #
You can't scatter food or have salt lick in Montana and hunt over those- you can plant food plots, or for that matter, just a food crop - corn, for example. if you aren't hunting, and don't allow hunting on your property, pretty much irrelevant.
Apr 7, 2020 14:24:42 #
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Apr 7, 2020 14:48:59 #
quixdraw wrote:
You can't scatter food or have salt lick in Montana and hunt over those- you can plant food plots, or for that matter, just a food crop - corn, for example. if you aren't hunting, and don't allow hunting on your property, pretty much irrelevant.
My neighbor has a lot more land than I do. He plants food plots for the deer and has three different hunting blinds near the food crops. I don't know if it's legal or not. I keep my nose clean. His land and mine is posted but I think we can hunt on our own land? My property is heavily treed and the deer like to hide and sleep on my land.
Apr 7, 2020 14:50:29 #
John Maher
Loc: Northern Virginia
Wildlife photography is not baiting deer. Go to a zoo.
Baiting deer is not healthy for the deer. Concentration promotes disease (CWD) and is not what they need nutritionally. Deer corn often has aflotoxins which does not affect ruminants, but is often fatal to birds (e.g., turkey) and small mammals.
Get a treestand or learn to "still hunt" with your camera. You will photograph more than deer.
Baiting deer is not healthy for the deer. Concentration promotes disease (CWD) and is not what they need nutritionally. Deer corn often has aflotoxins which does not affect ruminants, but is often fatal to birds (e.g., turkey) and small mammals.
Get a treestand or learn to "still hunt" with your camera. You will photograph more than deer.
Apr 7, 2020 14:56:12 #
John Maher wrote:
Wildlife photography is not baiting deer. Go to a zoo.
Baiting deer is not healthy for the deer. Concentration promotes disease (CWD) and is not what they need nutritionally. Deer corn often has aflotoxins which does not affect ruminants, but is often fatal to birds (e.g., turkey) and small mammals.
Get a treestand or learn to "still hunt" with your camera. You will photograph more than deer.
Baiting deer is not healthy for the deer. Concentration promotes disease (CWD) and is not what they need nutritionally. Deer corn often has aflotoxins which does not affect ruminants, but is often fatal to birds (e.g., turkey) and small mammals.
Get a treestand or learn to "still hunt" with your camera. You will photograph more than deer.
Thank you, very good points.
Apr 7, 2020 15:03:19 #
Apr 8, 2020 06:27:53 #
Davethehiker wrote:
I live on an isolated hill top surrounded hundreds... (show quote)
Oh you'll see bares as well...They will be a "little" rough with the feeder however. Happy snapping. If you have a mirrorless camera, make sure you set it to ES. electronic shutter, it's silent
Apr 8, 2020 06:30:57 #
You can feed the deer in PA. You have to have it gone a certain period of time before hunting season.
Take your lawn tractor, farm tractor or 4 wheeler and travel over the trails slow and often. After awhile the deer will just watch you drive by. The trick is to not look at them directly as you go by and no big movements. At times they are 20 feet from me, just watching. Slowly pick up the camera and get their portraits.
Take your lawn tractor, farm tractor or 4 wheeler and travel over the trails slow and often. After awhile the deer will just watch you drive by. The trick is to not look at them directly as you go by and no big movements. At times they are 20 feet from me, just watching. Slowly pick up the camera and get their portraits.
Apr 8, 2020 06:34:32 #
Davethehiker wrote:
I live on an isolated hill top surrounded hundreds... (show quote)
The deer may be practicing social distancing 😁😁😁
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