I was worried about our deer population since we have been in a pretty serious drought for 2.5 years and our ponds and creek have all gone dry.

I put out 100# of corn in my two gravity feeding tubes (so only the deer get fed) and it was all gone in four days! I guess the deer are still around in good numbers. (Most of my cameras were still in storage, so I didn't get any good observations.)

I did deepen one of our groundwater ponds this fall so all of the wildlife would have access to water. I had a camera up on the watering hole, and the deer decided it was a good spot for some late night parties!

It will be interesting to sit in the deer stand this season and observe the current state of all of the wildlife on our property.