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Hastily taken on my back porch (in my underwear and winter coat) with my phone at maximum zoom. The deer hereabouts are quite well fed and furry. You really can’t appreciate how shaggy the deer are in these photos. They are flourishing despite the cold. And really could not care if I’m shaking my angry curmudgeonly fist at them or not.
Y u no plant veggies?
Apples and black walnuts in abundance, as the deer’s chubbiness in the “lean season” attest.
Are these white-tailed deer or mule deer?
@Ice Swimmer: pretty sure those are white tails.
I got up one morning, looked out, and was very annoyed to see cows in my field. I started wondering who the heck had that many cows and put my glasses on. AHA. They were cows, all right; *elk* cows, about 30 of them. Really isn’t anyone you can complain to about that. :-)
kestrel @ 5
Thanks.
Whitetail deer have also been introduced here, but not mule deer. A group of Finnish Americans living in Minnesota in the 1930s wanted to give the old homeland a new species of deer to be hunted, as the Finnish forest reindeer were almost extinct (still rare today) and moose was getting near extinction (now they’re very populous).
Raucous Indignation:
Apples and black walnuts in abundance, as the deer’s chubbiness in the “lean season” attest.
Mine have loads of space and stuff to eat but they always make a beeline for my cilantro and my apple trees. Basically to get apples around here you have to wait until the trees are taller than a deer can stand on its hind legs.
kestrel@#5:
Really isn’t anyone you can complain to about that.
Yeah, no. Out here the elk would be going, “you and what army?”
Sometimes when I go out the deer just stand and stare at me, waiting for me to leave or do something. It’s fun to walk toward them (as non-threateningly as possible) and say “take me to your leader.”
They are whitetail. One morning I had 22 of them on the front lawn. I believe the local body shops breed and release them.
Just look at how chubby they’ve gotten this winter!!