February 14, 2011 by Nevia.

February is always a problematical month for all of us and especially for the deer. This year the North East has been hammered with extreme cold, constant snow and below freezing temperatures.  Certain spots still have over 3 feet of snow and its creating difficulty for the deer in their search for food. For deer, walking in deep snow poses trouble not only in search for food but mere walking puts hardship on their legs and the entire body.  Through our observation every winter we noticed that changes in temperature also alters the deer habits.  As the snow keeps accumulating you will notice the deer drawing together closer to the woods.  In the beginning of the winter you will see deer mostly in the evenings in search for food and early mornings as they leave their favorite sleeping spots. While napping deer like the protection of the big trees with very low branches and good visibility.  Deer follow the same trail every morning and head toward the security of the woods. This winter was no exception; we had between 20 and 40 deer on any given day taking refuge in our back woods. Because we have drinking water on the property it makes it ideal place for deer to feel safe, a true winter sanctuary.  We sprayed everything we wished to protect from deer destruction with Deer Defeat all natural deer and rabbit repellent. We did not spray the big spruces lining the property and some younger ones as deer were never interested in those trees. Last week we noticed that they started eating Norwegian spruces as well as blue spruces.  When we see deer starting to eat bare sticks of wild berry bushes and the needles of pine trees we know that they are entering into a danger zone. At this point deer will search for food longer and sleep less.  Because they spend many hours in search of food which is scarce they tend to stay closer where they can find the water, some food and feel safe while resting.  For that reason deer always favored our woods by our back yard.

However, this year we have discovered something we had never experienced previously in all the years of testing Deer Defeat Deer and Rabbit Repellent. Almost every day, any time during the day when one looks at the woods behind our house you get the feeling that the trees are moving because of the countless deer legs slowly walking throughout the woods. Our closest sprayed yews are about 30 feet from the edge of the woods. Out of over 40 deer, they are all ignoring the sprayed yews except one young deer which we named “Teddy Bear”.  It got the name because it looks like a little cuddly Teddy, but rest assure, this cute deer can do a lot of damage. This one which I believe is a male because of the way it stands out from the rest of the deer in appearance, bravery and of the first sign of the tiny horns. He is so determined and incredible stubborn. We have never had such an experience as with this young buck yet. He will just not give up; he feels like he needs to visit the yews every single day. He does not bother any other sprayed evergreens just the yews. He walks straight to the yews, smells, sometimes he stops a few feet away and leaves, sometimes he gets realy close and sometimes he takes a nibble, pullson the branches,  drops it and then walks away. The fact that he does this every single day leaves us baffled. If somebody would have told us that they have a deer that is this persistent we would had never believed it but we have witnessed it ourselves. We took many pictures of our cute Teddy deer. He has given us quite a challenge and he will be the one to watch for this spring.

We have mention this on many previous occasions, by observing the deer we have noticed that younger deer noses are not as sensitive as the older ones. They do get closer to the sprayed evergreens and this winter was no exception, especially with deep snow and shortage of food.  Our Teddy deer is butting head with us and frankly I am not sure which one of us will win.  The winter is not over yet. We will let you know of the outcome in the spring or if he sticks around the end of the summer….I suspect he is going to be a chalenge.

In the meantime please enjoy our many pictures of deer we took for you. Also you might like to view the live video of our little Teddy deer and the effectiveness of Deer Defeat Repellent. To view the video please visit our Home page. We alternate the clips but we will keep our little Prince until the end of March. See the picture of wild turkeys taken today….it must be the sign of Spring…

Happy Valentine’s Day

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February 2, 2011 by admin.

Here we are at the end of January and February is already upon us. Did you ever wonder why the month of February is so short? I think because February tends to be very unpredictable and this is when the worst weather happens so we need to keep it short.

Deer tend to get very aggressive in the winter when the snow and ice is over a foot high and it keeps mounting. We have watched and filmed the deer in our back yard approaching the sprayed yews and would like to share this video with you.  We thought you would like to see the effectiveness of Deer Defeat all natural deer and rabbit repellent at it’s best. Please do not worry that the deer will starve, there is plenty of food in the woods and they are very content eating what they find in their natural environment. Deer like what tastes better like our expensive shrubs. To view the video go to our Home page and click on the video “Deer, not in my garden!”

Thank you for tuning in and enjoy the show!

Happy Groundhogs day, February 2nd! Spring is around the corner?….

Nevia

www.deerdefeat.com

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