You know the deer are hungry when they start eating viburnum bushes, as you see in this image of one of “our” white-tailed deer this morning:
Some of the better food is under several inches of ice, which the deer have to dig through with their hooves. That’s what this yearling had just done:
On the other hand, we’ve seen no indication that the deer are having any problems with the cold weather. It was 14°F with a windchill of 7° when these images were taken. (Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on February 27, 2023.)