Not my woods, but behind my house.... deer, etc. they thrive. Heard (and caught a glimpse of) at dawn what was probably a bobcat a few days ago, and something set off my Lab alarm as she was back there two days ago mid-day.... first time for that. She's not a barker... just a chaser
. Put out some game cams. Yesterday .... just after noon, one captured what I think she saw. She won't bark at a deer, but I think she came across a fawn (or two) bedded down. The cam captured a doe walking by with two spotted fawns trailing her... couldn't have been more than a few weeks old. I'm pretty sure those fawns elicited the yappy dawg reaction, and probably why the bobcat was nearby too.
Fawns are SO cool
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A few years back, on my rural property, I spotted one bedded down just a few feet behind me in the woods behind a pond I was fishing... didn't move the whole time I was at that spot.... at least an hour. They don't bother me and I don't bother them.... but now the predator behind my house had better find a different buffet line.... or else
. Don't think it was a cat or 'yote from the glimpse I got .... just be gone!