Went out for a hike today in attempt to look for sheds found these 2 instead Nature is not always kind

Were those in a deer yard, or just random?

Really neat finds.

Frisky drive by and he couldn't find his arrow so animal went off to parts unknown.

Didn't get wasted not even those bones that will go back to the soil.

I wonder if they weren't wounded? Wounded deer crawl under stuff and die.

Seeing those pics of bucks makes me think of the last buck I saw on my last hunt of this past year. He was a real old timer for a deer. Probably oldest deer I have ever seen. Had to be 8+ years old and was realy on the downhill side. Rack was getting smaller and he had his left G2 broken off. Thought right then he probably would not make it through this winter. Blind squirrel, you are so right that nature is not always kind.

The deer on the left does not appear to have died very long ago while the deer in the right photo likely died in the fall or early winter. Many things could have caused those deaths from vehicles to deep snow with a crust on it that allows coyotes to run on top while deer get bogged down, and on and on and on. It's a cruel world out there in the kingdom every day and night during the winter with constant threats of death that are way less humane and timely than a sharp broad head. I wonder if Walt Disney knew that...

Another beautiful Spring day in Western Pa.

Nature is never kind, just tolerant. One thing goes wrong and you die.

Hasn't gotten any better here either! Yesterday we never hit 20 degrees all day. In fact, I don't think the wind chills ever got above zero. I woke up this morning to a beautiful sunrise, but a temp of only 4. Our lakes have 3 plus feet of ice on them and we haven't begun to melt it yet. I would usually be outside practicing for turkey hunting by now. Not this year. Staying by the fire and tying flies I guess.

We are gonna get winter kills here too. Most happen in spring, during relentless winter conditions like right now.

This is today, same as yesterday.

This is yesterday. I see dead deer in our future.

Earlier this spring guys went out looking for sheds and got a bunch of ticks on them up here in Iowa. we have had two snow storms since and another on the way. The last two mornings it has been in the teens with almost no snow on the ground. Will this freeze out some of the ticks?

No. Ticks will flourish through cold weather. Its the heat of summer that drives them away, at least until it cools off again in fall.

We didn't even really have winter this year here in CO. Winters aren't what they were a few decades ago when I was a boy. My buddies and I used to regularly sled out on the street in front of our houses. That's absolutely laffable now, it's more like Phoenix then Colorado Springs.

My place, also western Pa, looked like Will's this morning. I bet we got 3" of snow last night. I waded through a foot deep drift on my way to the garage.

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