…at my place in Mims, FL along with the hogs, the coons, the turkeys, the bob cats, and upper end predators. We didn’t see a Tom in Fall turkey season (March) and only two hens. We have not seen a hog in almost 18 months. There have been no deer or deer track at all across my land for almost 4 months. The Trail Cameras take pictures of squirrels and waving limbs and uncut vines but no large game or predators.
Is there something in the woods that would make all of the predators turn tail and leave the neighborhood? I had 300#’s of good corn in the feeder that spread on the ground over 6-weeks. All of it went bad on the ground. Nothing touched it. I stopped feeding.
I had peas growing in all of my fields and roads with nothing passing through or touching it. Ordinarily, the deer would eat the peas to the dirt line. I have walked the perimeter of my place a half dozen times and found zero tracks in or out. Not even armadillo! I am perplexed.
Today I get a notice from QDMA about spotting the signs of hemorrhagic disease. Maybe that would account for the deer and the Trappers taking 540 hogs out of the 4,000 acres behind me over 15 months (but that ended over a year ago). I thought for sure the hogs would wander back in from the flood plain, but it has been dry, real dry. Only now are we getting some restoring rains.
Maybe the game and predators are still out there (they have to be - they sure are not in my living room), just not in the “uplands” where I am situated although it seem unlikely. I used to have does and fawns, yearlings, and their older brothers and sisters about every evening per the Trail Cameras. Now nothing…