No animals eyes glow alone without the presence of light. If there was a full moon or bright moon it could have been any number of animal eyes looking up at the feeder and reflecting the moonlight. Owls and Bobcats eyes reflect a good amount of light in the moonlight but only if they are looking towards the moon also. For it to look like a flashlight would be pretty unimaginable though unless its is was a flashlight.

Had your eyes adjusted to the dark or do you use lights getting into the blind? If you do it can play a lot of tricks on your night vision going from bright lights (especially new led stuff) to darkness, and a little bit of light reflecting in the distance could look greater than it is. Kinda tunnel vision if you will. All you can see is light because your eyes haven't adjusted to the dark. And it is your only point of focus. You may or may not bee seeing light spots burned in your eye from going back in forth with lights to darkness as you drove in got in out of house truck etc.. or drugs as previously mentioned.

As humans we do not give ourselves credit for good night vision and why use it when you can grab a flashlight turn the truck lights on etc. It takes our eyes almost an hour to adjust and get to full night vision potential. If you learn to get ready in the dark feel your way around your gear and know it well. Shy aways from any light or close your eyes if you have to directly in it. Walk to the blind in the dark by the time you get there your night vision is at its best. For hunting especially rifle hunting this can pay off. I keep a light in case of emergencies in the field or hogs but leave it red. So if i do turn it on I do not blind myself. I avoid looking at any light directly and my phone for morning hunts is dimmed as well if i have to use it. With a little practice you can out do your buddies with a light. I put out a 45 decoys yesterday morning in the dark while my buddies where still trying to find gear and stumbling around in the dark after they had all the truck lights and flashlights going. Most of the time there is plenty of moonlight. O ya I was seeing birds before they did too.

Is this a new feeder? why are the deer scared of it going off? New times? They should jump or flinch a little but usually come right back to eating. Unless someone was there with a flash light or maybe a bobcat or other predator caused the spook.

Just some thoughts long winded sorry.

hold up... i just bought ammo from you. you didn't reload it that day did you?!

TC

817cd,

Yes, I'm the same way on the flash lights. That morning I was dropped off by another hunter early (about 5:50am), and walked in to the stand without a flash light. The moon was bright enough to not need one. I was in the stand and settled by 6. Once in the stand and blind windows open, the moon cast a slight shadow inside and on my gear so I could see it very well with no flash light. I actually prefer to not use a flash light to be able to see better in the dark and let your eyes adjust to the night. Feeder went off right at 6:30 am, and that's when I saw the glowing to the right of my feeder. It was like the feeder had startled it. It was bright enough to see it from 100 yards with the naked eye and wonder what is that with the light. I throw the binocs up, and see the bright light glowing and bright enough to have a halo around the light when looking through the binocs. It lasts for a few seconds nice and bright, then slowly fades to nothing in about 30-45 seconds. I never saw anything after that. I feel it was strange enough to post this thread, because I have never seen this before. I am thinking it to be the eyes of some critter. But I have never seen anything light up this bright from the eyes. I am almost thinking something like a lightning bug, but definitely brighter.

Are there any badgers at all where you hunt?

No clue. I've never seen one, but would love to. My feeder is just off a creek channel, and a pond is very close by. I do get a lot of small critters coming through.

Im thinking lightning bug

Radioactive squirrel?

Couple of things stand out from your posts - did you even go over and take a look? You said nothing about investigating the area where you saw the light/lights for any sort of evidence of tracks or anomalies. Would have been the first thing I would have done as soon as hunting time was over. Approach slowly and watching where you step, run a sweeping search pattern back and forth and see if you pick up something. Have you asked the landowner or other locals if they themselves have seen anything like it also? Almost sounds like Will-o the Wisp (swamp gas) business, but that would heavily rely on what sort of geologic elements are present in the area. I've seen a lot of strange things out in the woods, not much in TX though, mainly in the mountains out west. Some of it explainable, some of it not.

Chad,
I didn't mean to sound like a smartalec about the lights thing I just have hunted with to many guys who have seen spots/ have bad vision/ have a large imagination and see stuff every 5 seconds. You tell them they don't need a flashlight and that act like your some crazy wild banshee. Maybe I am but they insist on their led head bands and everything that shines, shimmers. The young hunters I deal with all think if it doesn't use batteries it must not be useful.



This and get TC running again. I have seen some strange happenings in the mountains out in New Mexico.

Could have also been a truck or 4 wheeler on a ranch road at a distance. I've seen a glimmer of light through the trees similar to that at a spot where I had not seen them before and later found out it was a fellow lease member had missed the turn off to his spot and was turning around.

this?

That is a good possibility. I have also been spooked by a piece of plastic bag hanging in a tree catching the morning light. If you have oil/gas wells on the property it could also be an oil well gas flare.

the woods come alive in the dark.

they do. hence the long running post - what gives you the heebee jeebees when hunting or w/e it is called.