Inland Fisheries and Wildlife hunting report

    The Maine Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Department’s hunting report for Nov. 21 in the Aroostook Region is as follows:    A mid-week snowfall left two to three inches of snow on the ground in most of the Aroostook region, and deer hunters in the area are doing well.
“Registration stations are having one of their better years up here,” said IFW wildlife biologist Rich Hoppe. “We may not be seeing the number of hunters that we have seen in years past, but the deer hunters up here are quite content, and the deer population still seems to be on the upswing.”
Hoppe expects the good hunting to continue, with the recent snow, and the deer beginning to move with the onset of the rut this past week.
Hoppe says he has seen quite a few crotch-horns and spike horns from hunters who have been hunting along the edges of fields and roads. He’s checked larger deer, and those are coming from hunters who are getting off the roads and deeper into the woods.
Bird season goes till the end of December and bird hunters are still finding success along hedgerows in the woods. There’s still fruit on many trees, said Hoppe, and birds seem to be all over the place.
“We’ve had a very good bird year as well,” said Hoppe.