Pay close attention to wind direction and use scent-blocking products to minimize your presence. Deer have a keen sense of smell, and even a slight breeze carrying your scent can alert them to your presence. It’s essential to sit still and be patient; movement can easily spook deer, makin...
but few scents have been proven to reliably deter deer from any garden or orchard. Some have tried air fresheners, urine, slices of deodorant soap, human hair, herbs, mothballs, creosote, cayenne pepper, and rotten eggs. The deterrent value of these concoctions rises if the scents are repl...
My view is that their sense of olfactory ground disturbance is noticed most on grass, less on fluffy ground, and less on hard ground. Not sure about snow. It is hard to know if their awareness of it is visual or olfactory. But I would argue their sense of smell always outweighs all ...
If you read the “how deer work” section earlier in this article, the fishing line trick makes sense. Basically, deer can not see the fishing line that’s right in front of them. They can smell your delicious garden/landscape plants and see a blurry version of that lush, green goodness...
It secrets an oily material with a strong smell of ammonia. This ammonia smell results, in part from the habit of adult animals of both sexes of deliberately urinating on the gland tufts. When excited, the deer raises the hairs of the tufts, and the glands then emit the musky odor.3 ...