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The Night Visitor
I just heard my neighbors dog having a major shit-fit at something outside. And that will get my attention as well.
I go outside with a flashlight and pistol in hand and roughly 10-12 feet away was the intruder in my backyard.
This young Whitetail Buck.
I watched him for several minutes and then thought "Nobody will believe this without proof!."
I ran back inside, grabbed my camera and came back out, and our nocturnal visitor was still in the same spot watching me. I lit him up with the flashlight and snapped a couple shots. This one shows his growing antlers better.
This is the first time I've seen deer ever in my area, this is so cool. Bear in mind, I live inside of Madison, not in the country.
I left him be in the yard, who knows, he may return someday.
I go outside with a flashlight and pistol in hand and roughly 10-12 feet away was the intruder in my backyard.
This young Whitetail Buck.
I watched him for several minutes and then thought "Nobody will believe this without proof!."
I ran back inside, grabbed my camera and came back out, and our nocturnal visitor was still in the same spot watching me. I lit him up with the flashlight and snapped a couple shots. This one shows his growing antlers better.
This is the first time I've seen deer ever in my area, this is so cool. Bear in mind, I live inside of Madison, not in the country.
I left him be in the yard, who knows, he may return someday.
Category Photography / All
Species Bovine (Other)
Size 1280 x 960px
File Size 202.8 kB
we've got white tails, mulies occaisional elk, racoons, fox, coyotes, black bear, lynx and cougar in my city. they hang around the wildlife areas near the college a lot. Nothing more fun than walking from the parking lot to class and seeing warnings up to avoid the elk on campus because they are in rut. And they will chase you.
Wish I had a decent camera a couple years back...was getting an "adventure Pass" for the LA National Forest just north of Los Angeles, California....and I step back outside to find a mama and her two fawns licking the roof of my old toyota minivan...which was covered in dates and sap from our pine tree. Couldn't get this close though...which is just plain spectacular.
Deer do really well in suburban areas. they eat bushes mainly, and are surprisingly good at hiding. The major predator is the automobile. Although, I am theorizing that one of the reasone coyotes are increasing in suburban areas and packing up is that a pack of coyotes can take down deer handily, and the area offers a multitude of other smaller prey, the small rodents and small pets, and lots of shelter.
Thats cool. I live in the middle of the city too, and I have seen, aside from the usual blackbird, sparrows and eurasian squirrels, Foxes, bats and racoons so far. One night I heard a Minerva's owl. Most of those animals live on the Frankfurt central cemetary nearby, Its a huge area with large old trees and tombs. Perfect place to live for those animals mostly undisturbed (especially at night when the cementary is closed).
Urban deer amaze me. On Friday a doe ran right down Captain's Row at the academy, right towards where the peninsula dead-ends at the river, and I'm STILL trying to figure out where she came from, since there's nothing this side of town but buildings and water for a solid 2 miles (not to mention she'd have to have jumped a 10-12 foot fence - or charged the gate - to get inside academy grounds....though I can't imagine the guards would've stopped her for I.D....). I figure she must've swam in, but again, can't fathom why, since last week was heavy on the parades and gun salutes.
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