Originally Posted by
PedalingWalrus
Yeah, whippoorwill is a huge PITA :-)
I once camped on an island in a hammock and woke up hearing what sounded like a deer walking through. When I woke up to pee before sunrise I spooked a dear right next to me. In the daylight I noticed the flattened grass where the deer slept literally 3-4 feet away from my hammock - probably its favorite spot every night and I invaded it.
I noticed that too, a heck of a lot of the deer I've seen, were either trying to "sneak" past me, or just plain didn't care how close they got to me. Especially the fawns, I've walked right up to them at times, coming around a blind curve or tree or something, like maybe 10 feet away, before seeing them, and they STILL didn't run off. They just stand still, staring at ya. 🙄😉 I suspect that if they weren't hunted for food so much, they might've been domesticated long ago. 🤔