Whitetail deer fedder problem?

i have a feeder set up on a powerline trail. i havent got a deer picture in about a week and a half. i was wondering why this is. i have corn in the feeder and a mineral block by the feeder. it seemed that when there was snow on the ground they used it almost every night. now since it melted i havent seen them at all in the pics. if someone could help me with this and give me suggestions that would be great.Whitetail deer fedder problem?
They could of moved for a number of reasons. As the weather is getting warmer there may be activity in the area that the deer don't like. Such as predators and people activity. Also they may have found a source of food that they prefer now. Possibly a food source closer to water or cover. Deer are not as smart as you think they are. Their main thought process is Eat, Sleep, and make little deer. Check your feed and activity in the area. IF they know there is food they will be back.Whitetail deer fedder problem?
I know this is obvious but something is drawing them away from your feeder. What may be happening is that a farmer or rancher near your feeder site is starting to feed his cattle some kind of feed that the deer prefer to what you are offering. I had this happen when a rancher, whose property was about 1/4 mile from my stand, started feeding range cubes to his cattle. The deer prefered the range cubes to my corn so they lost interest in my feeder. The on oy thing that saved my hunting that season was that the water was on one side of my property and the rancher feeding the range cubes was on the other side. The deer moved through my property on thier way from the feed to the water. Not as many deer as I would have liked but enough for me to limit out.





Another possibility is that your feed may have gone bad. if it got wet, it may have started swelling and getting sour. Deer don't like that either.





You didn't mention seeing anything in your camera so I assume that you are not being sabotaged by bunny huggers. If you were plagued with bunny huggers, your camera would most llikely have gotten pictures of them in action. The same would go for activities of predators such as coyotes or wolves.





Since you have no pictures of bunny hugggers, or predators, I would think that the deer are not being chased away but being drawn away by something such as the feed, etc. If you determine the corn in your feeder to be good, you might take as hike through the surrounding area looking for what the problem might be. Talk to the farmers on the adjacent properties to see if they are feeding something that could be more tasty to deer. Naturally, they won't change what they are feeding their cattle but you might get an idea of somethng to put out besides corn. Also, I have seen times when a bumper crop of acorns would make feeders useless. If the trees are dropping a lot of acorns, that could be your problem.





It's just going to take a bit of detective work to find the problem and then to figure out how to correct it.
they just moving around
because now that the snow has melted they don't have to search for food, and the warmer weather they probably arent moving as much