Deer are a prob, at least potentially. Waite has developed what he calls his "Deer Deterrent System" consisting of several layers of security. First he strings monofilament line; deer become confused when they touch something they can't see. Then he uses an electric fence. He also scatters dog and human hair throughout the garden.
He has also come up with an idea that seems to work fairly well. He downloaded various sounds from the internet that he figures would scare deer, including wolves howling and coyotes ("coy dogs" in Vermont) yipping. He put these on an MP3 Player and hooked the MP3 up to speakers which are set in the garden. The whole system is on a timer: off in the day, on at night. The sounds are set to play randomly with 5 to 6 minutes of silence between.
For 2009 he's come up with an enhancement: A coyote decoy. These are actually made to attract coyotes as apparently in some parts of the country hunting coyotes is a sport. Waite's using his as part of his DDS. He disassembled an old Schaeffer Beer advertising clock that used to hang in a bar. It had a rotating motor. He's salvaged the motor and will attach the coyote decoy to the mechanism so that the decoy will rotate. (He has run an underground electrical wire out to the edge of his garden to power the fencer and the MP3 system - and now the rotating coyote.)
He likes to get the DDS set up by the middle of April as deer are then establishing their summer routines. If he can prevent the deer from establishing his garden area as part of their routine, it's more likely they'll not bother it. Once they get in it's harder to get them out.
Here's a picture of the decoy. It looks pretty convincing.
The final line of defense -so far avoided- is to contact the Game Warden for permission to shoot the deer with his AK-47.
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