Sunday, June 19, 2011

My Deer Buddies Visit Again

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These guys like to mow my driveway for me this time of year. Just wish they did a more thorough job.


There were two younger ones with the buck. I figured the two younger ones were from last year's crop of fawn's.


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Nice profile of his rack.






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I don't know much about deer behavior. Do the young males of last season only hang out with the older males from the season before them once they leave Mom?







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I make a move inside and he looks up.




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What's caught Junior's attention? See the other young one up above him in the folage?



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Has he spotted a new arrival?




(9) Ah, ha! Another buck of equivalent age!



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They had one little very minor altercation but I think they already knew each other. They continued to graze together for another 10 minutes. There was a fourth one---a second young one----but he was off in the side yard.





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No sparring in this shot. They were just grazing very close together.





(15) Antlers are still very fuzzy. My rodedendrum are the worse for their attempts to rub it off!



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