I bump into a few deer each day at my pond...they are usually drinking from the feeder creek and browsing on vegetation. I haven't seen them in the pond, and they don't cross it when frozen. I had a dead one in the marsh above my pond last winter however. I welcome them and hope they stick around. 440 acres of old growth mixed and oak forest land neighboring my subdivision were just sold for hunting purposes - we'll likely have many, many more hunters around this fall.


Mat Peirce
1.25 acre southeast Iowa pond
LMB, BG, YP, WE, HSB, RES, BCP