Mom visited last week for Halloween. She said back home the deer now are birthing 4 months out of the year. It's supposed to be just 2 weeks. Young does born in the late summer are going into heat too young and having their babies too early. The babies are too small, so they abandon them. Squirrels, raccoons, birds, they are all having more babies every year it gets warmer. Except the bobwhite.
There are no more bobwhites in Missouri, and no one knows why.