Not the animal discussed in this post. The other morning, after 35 years of watching deer, I saw something I'd never seen before. A cold...

I took this photo back in September. This was the deer my husband decided he wanted to hunt this year. It was a nice 10-point buck.   A litt...

It's time for the rut, and the young bucks are fighting over the does. The larger buck just lay there and watched; I guess he'd alre...

 

 

I wasn't really in a good position to get this photo, but these shiny antlers certainly caught my attention yesterday morning. Aren'...

A quick little short video I captured of two bucks hitting their horns together. 

Here's the 5-point buck I've been watching all summer without his velvet, ready to head into the rutting season with his horns.

Last week I posted photos of this buck in velvet.  Yesterday he was back in the yard, but the velvet is starting to come off. I thought som...

  He brought a long a friend, too.

  I spied this buck taking a break in the field and was entranced by the velvet on his developing antlers.

  Momma deer taking care of her baby.

I was on the phone when I glanced out the window and watched a hawk land on a tree across the way. Next thing I knew, the hawk was chasing a...

 

  It's unseasonably warm here now, so much so that I stepped outside onto the front porch in only my robe, slippers, and nightgown to ta...

  This afternoon I watched these two bucks go head-to-head for a few minutes.

 

 

 

  Two young bucks having a go at one another. As best I could tell, it was a draw.