Hey guys,
Yesterday I decided to go out fishing for steelhead since it was a beautiful day and we're supposed to be staying away from other people. Obviously other people had the same idea. I pulled up my GPS and looked up a spot that would be far away from all people - so I could just cover some water and relax and enjoy the day. Unfortunately I didn't get any steelhead - I didn't even have the slightest of nibbles. But I guess as a trade off I ended up finding a few big patches of what I believe are blacktail rubs.
If found the first set of rubs on the way in. It was in a bunch of young alders about wrist thick - the alders weren't shredded up like some of the rubs I've seen - I'm going to try to upload pictures or the video I took. I only looked around for a few minutes but I would say I saw about 15 of these alders that had been rubbed in a very tight area.
On my way back, I walked close to the same path back, but not quite. I found another two groups of alders that had been rubbed up. The 3 groups of trees were about 100 metres away from each other (after consulting my GPS). The same sort of thing. Young alders scratched up. One had of these had some thicker alders that were rubbed - one was about 6 inches in diameter the other was about 8.
My question is - do you think this was one deer? or multiple? Should I be looking around the area for his sheds? Will he be back next year - is this an area of interest or is it a missed opportunity but something to learn from?
Thanks in advance