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Deer have simply defoliated the woods behind my house over the past few years. They jump my back fence too and I've seen them sampling leaves from trees in my front yard before. Rarely see bucks, but their mates and offspring live in those woods ... here in the suburbs. I live in an urban county now (was my rural boy scout camp back then), and they were never seen here years ago. Now estimated to be 1 deer per square mile and they are out and about 24 x 7, all year long, not just at dawn & dusk, or during rut anymore. Cars kill a bunch and hunting doesn't happen in this area any more. My buddy used to have a house outside of Richmond ... lots of woods, etc. He HAD a patch of ivy covering most of his front lawn. A doe and her fawn would visit the ivy buffet at 5 pm most days and casually eat while cars passed by just a few feet away.
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