Thursday August 26, 2010

 

  

Road Trip – Day 1

Deer

Wednesday, August 18

 

 

After visiting with Dave and Sandy and getting settled into our room, we drove on some local roads to check out the deer population, and weren’t disappointed. We saw about eighty – many which I did not photograph.

 

 

I liked this picture – with the old dump truck in the background.

 

 

I cropped the same photo. Notice the antlers on the one on the left. Even at a distance you can see that antlers are still in the velvet.

 

 

This was a beautiful area with lots of cattle on the hillsides.

 

 

Cerwin was pleased to see antlers on two of these.

 

 

Two deer at alert due to our presence

 

 

A doe and two fawns

 

 

This was the next photo in my series, and I see there are three fawns. I wonder if she had triplets or if there was another doe in the area?

 

 

Another doe with twins

 

 

 

 

This herd of deer did not mind when Cerwin stopped the car, but I had their attention when I got outside.

 

 

A close up of the three on the right.

 

 

I decided to walk closer to see what they would do…

 

 

It didn’t take them long to show us their tails – the reason they are called whitetail deer.

 

 

I was surprised to hear a snort nearby and see another deer run away.

 

 

The weather was starting to clear when we noticed these rainbow colors in the sky.

 

 

The wispy fog created a delightful atmosphere.

 

 

 

 

Toward dark we saw a few deer close to the road. This one and the next were close together…

 

 

…so I expect they were twins.

 

 

This fawn was standing along the road on my side of the car, making it easy to get a closeup.

 

 

This is what the deer looked like after dark. The two eyes on the right belonged to the doe and the eyes in the middle of the road were those of her fawn.

Dave told us there are a lot of small fawns for this time of year. They are usually born in spring.

 

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It was an interesting, wonderful day.

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