During three months last summer and early fall, I had placed a trail camera along the edge of a corn field at one of my hunting spots. The camera was fastened to a mid-sized beech tree, which was at the edge of heavy woods and thick brush adjacent to the corn field.
As with the placement of trail cams by most other hunters, I wanted to get some idea of the deer numbers — and possible mature bucks — that were living in this area. In the overall collection of photos, I was surprised at all the different forms of wildlife that were raiding the corn crop growing there.
Deer not only culprits raiding farmers’ crops
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