Sunday morning coming down

[killdeer43]

We were out early this morning and headed to the local Starbucks when....

Black-tail fawn

....we ran into this fawn and its mother, working the neighborhood.
We're seeing more fawns in town this year than ever before.
Quite a few outside of town, too!

Joe

 

[AlohaJoe]

Nice pic! We see them when we go to Port Townsend... they're all over town, skittish but co-existing. They're beautiful creatures!

 

[Dr. Spivey]

I've had an abnormal amount of urban deer sightings around here as well. More roadkill deer than ever this year also. Strange, since the hunters had a slow season last year. Maybe the deer were all hiding in town?

We've had so many deer in a local park, they've had an archery hunt there the past 2 years. 18 deer were taken, and it doesn't appear that they've made a dent in the population. Most of them are 2-5 years old and I'm guessing they are crossing the river at night. The water is too wide and fast for the young ones to make it, but adults could. There is no evidence the deer are coming from this side of the river, and most folks underestimate a deers ability to swim.

 

[Ravon]

The deer population seems to be rebounding here (west Ky.) after an epidemic of Blue Tongue several yrs. back. I think its contracted though mites and the problem was very regionalized. But that same year I spied a few with binoculars on our property and their ears were literally covered in ticks, they actually looked like they had tick ear muffs on! I've gotta think that had some bearing on their later plight

 

[killdeer43]

Have a look at this good-looking buck I found a couple of weeks ago at 3,000' in the North Cascades....right behind my tent!

Black-tailed Deer

Very healthy fellow!

Joe

 

[Zelja]

I've had an abnormal amount of urban deer sightings around here as well.

I used to think it very strange when Americans used to ask me about kangaroos hopping down our streets here in Sydney. To us urban Sydneysiders the idea is preposterous - sounds like an outsiders mythicised view of an imagined reality.

Learning about how deer come to the suburban enclaves in the US has made me realise why they think the same thing happens with kangaroos. My brother informed me soon after he got to NJ how he side-swapped a deer early one morning which ran in front of him & I have seen deer on the grounds of a golf course which adjoins the back of another friends house.

Just doesn't happen over here with the roos - not even in the outlying suburbs of the metro area. To see a roo in Sydney you need to go to the zoo.

 

[Retropicker]

Have a look at this good-looking buck I found a couple of weeks ago at 3,000' in the North Cascades....right behind my tent!

Black-tailed Deer

Very healthy fellow!

Joe

Boy, is he going to grow into something special.

 

[Retropicker]

In honor of the thread title. Bad mix but a favorite singer of this song - Bobby Osborne.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnI9QvofweE

 

[killdeer43]

Have a look at this good-looking buck I found a couple of weeks ago at 3,000' in the North Cascades....right behind my tent!

Black-tailed Deer

Very healthy fellow!

Joe

Boy, is he going to grow into something special.

He's going to get a few looks in the fall when this same campground will be filled with hunters.

Joe

 

[taabru45]

Good point Joe...you should have brought him home.......Steffan

 

[Thunderface]

More wildlife! These two characters were casing the New Horizon Academy parking lot while I dropped my youngest son off this morning.