It was weird. I saw him standing there looking at me. I coughed, cleared my throat, he just ignored the noise. I took the pic with my phone, and when the shutter clicked, he took off running! I see them all the time around the house, but usually I don't have a camera in my hand.
Aren't the "spotties" just incredible? I saw one a couple weeks ago run across the road in front of me (our speed limit is 10mph for a good reason), and she couldn't have been a week old. Not much larger than Mullet actually. We have a sort of "dwarf" sub-species of the white tail deer here. They are stunted due to the natural diet on the island. The newborns are the size of a large cat. I got to see a "baby's first steps" once, the poor thing was still wet and all shaky legged. I live for these "nature moments".
Very awesome you get to see a family's new additions each year!
Nice photo Carl - I kind of have a love/hate relationship with deer - we have such a huge population around here that the Lyme disease and tick problem is off the charts and I can't even tell you how many times deer have thrown themselves into my husbands truck (he's out driving all hours) - but they are SO cute - and I watch them as they eat the tops off my hostas, and chow down on the rest of the plant (Hostas are like candy to deer) and think "oh, how CUTE!" :lol:
Saw I big BUCK the other day by the side of the road - the guy had a huge rack on him and all I could think was "how many deer ticks must be lurking on that big boy?"
sigh....
When I first open the site, or hit PZI, a pop-up, then certain words in posts are underlined twice and in orange. when I hover over them, it shows me a box of ads to click on. I wonder if I've done something to my computer and it's only me.