I haven't been in Te Miro but have spent a lot of time in one of the other blocks.
It's always very noisy, and will be even worse now with no decent rain since early December, but it works both ways as I usually hear the deer before seeing them.
No hunting Nov-Feb, so early March there should be a few around that haven't been hunted for a while, depending how much hunting gets done on the surrounding farmland.
The bucks seem to use the same scrapes every year, and early on several bucks seem to visit the same scrape, the youngsters and females play with them too. The bucks seem to have a thing for thrashing small silver ferns as well.
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