Do deer sleep in thickets?

Established Sanctuaries. If you have a sanctuary established on your property, deer will bed there. ... Bucks will also bed in the open, especially when pressure is low and weather is pleasant. When the temperature drops and precipitation falls, that's when bucks head for the thicket.

Do deer like laurel thickets?

Deer tend to avoid the gnarliest ones but love bedding and traveling in patchy laurel. In rifle season they lay up in the thickest rockiest patches they can find.