Some deer pictures

[bowbum]

Not much action with the heat but a couple of cool mornings bought some of the bucks out of hiding.

I threw in some fawn pictures for social, non discriminatory fairness.
In one, notice how the buck fawn is so much bigger than his sister and his spots are about gone.



I've been watching this buck, (7 point), for a couple of years. This may be his year to retire to the freezer.
Looks like he is rutted up a bit already.

One trail cam picture and then the he made a live appearance in the yard.






Small 8 point.




Fawns.

[dennyf]

Neat pics, as usual. The buck fawn is probably both a glutton and a bully, which may explain his size?

Although I haven't seen her since late last winter, we have a big doe here with distinctive leg markings that are shared with all of her fawns over the past four seasons. Three years ago she had a doe and buck fawn that were in the yard daily, (all of her fawns were one of each, until last year when she had two bucks).

When we had apples and threw out some pears, the buck fawn would knock his little sister down on a regular basis, to bogart all the pears and most of the apples. He would either kick her out of the way, or sometimes put his head down and knock her over. Happened often enough that we figured it was his daily ritual and explained why he was far plumper than his sister. Saw him last fall and he was about a 14" six point, haven't seen much of him since spring. He was a four point in his second summer.

All summer we've had a doe with two fawns and a smaller doe with one fawn. Last week we suddenly had four fawns out back. Three does, four fawns and one little spike buck whose size defies my ability to age him. He is twice the size of the four fawns, yet half the size of the mature does?

My guess, he's the really late fawn we saw last summer, that was half the size of the other fawns of the year in October?