Showing posts with label deer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label deer. Show all posts

doe

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June 14th I spotted a young buck and while driving home yesterday I spotted this doe alongside the road. She was kind enough to allow me a side profile picture before running off into the woods. Photo was taken with my cell phone. I'm leaning the best camera is the one you have with you. Each deer was spotted exactly one week apart. 30 Days Wild, Day 22.

young buck

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How awesome is it when you go to McDonald's and see a young buck? And I captured this image with my cell phone. I edited it a bit before posting for 30 Days Wild, day 6.

deer

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I've tucked the baby red winged blackbird's tiny, hollow boned features into my memory as I walk back to my SUV. I drive a short distance to another pond on the preserve before spying three deer. They're grazing grass along the embankment behind the pond. It's there I notice a  bat's aeronautics and the chorus of frogs sounding the evening. I'm watching the white tailed deer gently move into the woods. Before disappearing from my sight a doe takes one last look over her shoulder. It's as if she's tucked my five foot frame into her memory. Somewhere in the folds of darkness she's pulled away from my sight.

deer

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learned how to do animate my pictures today so i decided to share this one of a deer running across the meadow for cover. such beautiful creatures...

a doe and her fawn

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My husband and daughter were on a country road last year when they saw these two deer: a doe and her fawn. The mother crossed quickly into the woods but as you'll see the baby had... a little trouble finding the right place to jump.

Feathers

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Upon our return home last night from town we saw these feathers close to the feeder. At first I was upset with our neighbors chihuahua for killing the bird. Then their kids came over and asked what I was doing and what did this? I couldn't answer them because I didn't know. One of them even suggested a cat but, my cat is a house cat with diabetes unable to go outside anymore. Our neighbors only have dogs or no pets. Could two birds have fought over the food leaving one dead or dying somewhere? I've never known two birds to fight so violently.

On a lighter note, I saw two deer in different places on the way home. The one standing next to the guardrail ready to jump at a given instant was a doe with black tipped ears and the sweetest face. I hope she waited until all the cars passed by before crossing the highway.

Nature Preserve

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After eating Chinese Saturday evening the family and I went to a local nature preserve. Turkey vultures circling above the mountains and deer grazing in a small clearing were but two living creatures we'd seen before entering the preserve. The sun was shining and the breeze waxed gentle across our skin.

Our daughter took down a footpath with her bike beneath her while my husband and I went down another path to a small pond filled with frogs. There was a distinct comfort surrounding each of us as we parted. My husband went in search of archaeological finds as I snapped pictures of unsuspecting frogs.

Before evening closed its eyes on the last bits of daylight I was able to film two frogs mating and another sounding its chorus (check video in sidebar for the latter). Evening's eyelids are heavier now as we walk back along the earlier path. It's there our daughter sees her first bat flying in open sky.

Three Deer

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After eating Mexican last night we drove home with our stomachs full. On both sides of the highway I spotted mother deers and their young. A few minutes later I was rushing inside my home grabbing my camera.

Upon returning to one of their common grazing spots I noticed a mother deer with her two babies grazing along a tree lined path. Each of the deer stood with pricked ears watching our every move, quietly. The babies inched closer to their mother with each click.

Not wanting to disturb these gentle creatures any longer we drove down the road a small piece to find the other mother and baby had already gone back into the nearby woods.