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Post by tampaspicer on Apr 3, 2024 12:36:47 GMT -5
I use to live in Lutz and worked in Holiday. I drove Tarpon Ave everyday to work. Saw one of the biggest FL bucks of my life in a field with a couple does next to Matt Geiger's house on the way to work one morning. Tall and wide easily 130's possibly 140's.
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Post by JS84 on Apr 3, 2024 12:59:42 GMT -5
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Post by swampdog on Apr 3, 2024 13:15:55 GMT -5
Have seen a few good racks picked up by some folks doing property evaluations and surveying in Pinellas County. Some were whole heads and others sheds.
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Post by tampaspicer on Apr 3, 2024 13:33:00 GMT -5
Some good genetics around there.
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Post by johnnybandit on Apr 3, 2024 16:03:38 GMT -5
I live in an area that has been developed since the 1970's. When I bought this house in 2001, I started noticing a few deer.... The area is all subdivisions. With a few homeowners that have 1 to 2 acre yards, a couple of over grown orange groves, a couple of small community parks and an east west utility easement and several natural ponds.... The deer were almost completely nocturnal and worked resources.... You would mostly see one crossing the roads when coming home late at night or before daylight.....
About 2005 or 2006 the coyotes showed up in force..... The coyotes first took out all of the outside cats...... Then started in on the fawns.... Folks were finding small remnants of fawns along the utility easement. I figured that would be the end of the deer.... That there were not very many of them and the coyotes would get all the fawns...... But the deer adapted.... They started hiding their fawns very close to houses.... Many times right up against them...... The Azalea and flower bushes along the front of my house became a popular spot... as well as along my back fence that joins up to county property..... They did this to other houses in the neighborhood as well..... myself and a few neighbors noticed the deer preferred to hide their fawns in yards where dogs, especially big dogs, lived.... I noticed does were hiding fawns as close to my fence as they could get.....
Then a developer came in and bought up the small abandoned orange groves. They built houses...... So I figured that was the end of the deer....... But they adapted again... And we still have a few deer around..
Interestingly... My parents live down near Bloomingdale High School When I was a kid and most of that was woods... there were a few deer down there... then it got all developed..... The deer Left.... But a few years ago they came back..... it is not uncommon to see deer in the middle of the day in their neighborhood....
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Post by mackeralsnatcher on Apr 3, 2024 17:37:53 GMT -5
That's pretty much on the other side of the road where i saw the doe the other day. |
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Post by meateater on Apr 4, 2024 10:14:34 GMT -5
They are in Pinellas off Tampa Rd between the Lake Tarpon canal and US 19. There was a decent 7 ptr laying in the middle of the Tampa rd median, just east of Lake St. George but before the southbound ramp to Mcmullen Booth this year. I saw him fresh and didn't make it back in time before the county picked him up. I was just going to make a new set a rattle antlers was all though fwc would launch a 6 month investigation on your ass, dont touch it. |
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Post by JS84 on Apr 4, 2024 11:44:12 GMT -5
Not like it's a bear  |
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Post by meateater on Apr 4, 2024 11:54:40 GMT -5
Not like it's a bear or a dead turtle. |
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Post by JS84 on Apr 4, 2024 12:18:45 GMT -5
Sheesh, now that's just petty
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Post by JS84 on Apr 4, 2024 18:24:34 GMT -5
Speaking of resilient deer. This gal showed up on camera this morning and it looks like she has a nice gash down her side. If you look close, you can see a little red around it.   |
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Post by swampdog on Apr 4, 2024 18:54:58 GMT -5
I’ve seen that kind of injury from a vehicle knocking a deer to the asphalt. She’s up and feeding so that’s a good sign. They are tough critters.
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Post by nuthinfancy on Apr 19, 2024 15:05:25 GMT -5
Left my cam up to keep tabs on the urban bucks. They look to be coming along nicely… Pictures are a little grainy until you click on them, then they show up good Attachments:
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