Certainly feel your pain....
Where we live is wooded and we used to enjoy the deer and squirrel wildlife here.
It was very common to see groups of deer wandering into our yard and eating on our two crab apple trees. At dusk was always the best time time to see them...
Now more folks have moved in close to us and lots of dogs now that was never here before...
I have only seen maybe two deers this season in this area... The locals say the acorns and other natural food is on the decline around here...
I most often ended my day by sitting in a couple of lawn chairs under a tree facing the wood line and drinking my good fresh ground bean coffee... Miss seeing the little fellows...
Roy Ken