 Well, it's winter and deer are on the winter range. What is winter range and why are they there? Deer are able to digest fibrous materials. They're browsers. They like to eat this year's growth off of woody shrubs and other kinds of plants. The part off of the shrub that is really the highest nutritional quality is the part of the plant that grew this year and that's the part that the deer will select for their best quality diet. And it comes off of plants like bitter brush and sage brush and service berry, choked cherry and yes, those decorative plants that you've planted in your yard. Now in the summertime, food's easy for a deer and in wintertime it's not the case where they were and that's why they're not there anymore. That's why they've moved, they've migrated to winter range, the place in their habitat where they're able to find that high quality feed that they need to subsist to the winter. Now as it happens, a lot of times the towns and other places where we humans live and have planted shrubbery is a place where a deer really finds that high quality nutritional feed that he needs to the winter. It's become his winter range. So the next time that you've got a deer out in your shrubbery, just think about the fact that he's really out there shopping for the highest quality produce he can find. From the University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service, I'm Eric Peterson.