White-tailed Deer in Winter Snow
This winter, while visiting my friend Eric Dresser in upstate New York, I spent part of one morning in a blind photographing a herd of wild deer that live on his property. Each morning, Eric puts down corn for the deer and they have grown quite accustomed to the presence of him and his beagle, Gitzo, and many of them will come to feed even with him standing nearby. The deer are not quite used to other people, however, so I had to crawl into a pop-up blind and wait for the deer to come in order to photograph them.
Eric’s herd consists mostly of several does and young whitetails, including a deer with gray eyes and a doe with a bum leg. He also has a small but handsome eight-point buck that visits, but unfortunately the buck shed his antlers the very evening before I photographed them, so I missed out on getting a shot of him with his rack. I still enjoyed the experience of watching these beautiful wild animals graze, covered in their thick fuzzy winter coats.
Here are a few photographs from Eric’s house in upstate New York. These first two are of does in his herd. The following photograph is of the eight-point buck, less than 24 hours after shedding his antlers.
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on January 30, 2008 at 4:36 pm
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Beautiful shots sweetie. I wish I had spent some time in that blind (and I don’t even have better Evening Grosbeak images to show for not being in there!) … nicely done
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