Saw quite a few vultures swarming around an area of my place and roosting in the trees, we'd flush them every time we drove in or out. Went over to look around in the woods. Took a surprisingly long time for me to find it, but there was a pretty decent buck dead back in the woods. Not gonna look too close, but I doubt it was shot or hit by a car, long way from any high speed road.
We have had a huge amount of rain this year and where he died is close to where there has been a lot of standing water this year, but none there now. I know in the last stages of blue tongue they tend to seek water sources. Of course, we've had way more bugs than usual this year because of the rain and it's an insect borne disease.
It kinda sucks, because of the flooding of the public land I normally hunt, I figured on this being the first year I seriously hunted my own place, and looking at the antlers still in velvet with a couple of months more growth, he'd have been a shooter come muzzle loader season.
Anybody in this part of the country heard of this being a bad year for blue tongue?