Mother and Child

Photographed this morning.

The fawn and its mother came back this morning and settled down in the meadow, in the typical "facing away from the center," defensive position.

Three Dears At Night

Photographed last night, in the meadow.

Don't Mess with the Deer When They Are Feeling Protective

MATT SAYS:

This is my first fawn sighting of the season.  The picture was captured, such as it is, with my iPhone.  You can see the tiny fawn, standing behind its mother, on the left, and a large deer, which I surmise is a stag, on the right.  As I snapped the picture the stag started walking right at me, slowly, but keeping his gaze on me the entire time.  I pocketed my iPhone and backed off -- I was at least 50 yards away when I was taking the picture -- and he lost interest.  I have never had a deer behave that directly and aggressively with me before.  I can only guess the stag interpreted me as a threat to the fawn and decided to confront me.

Full of Life

Photographed Wednesday afternoon, in the meadow.

Deer In The Meadow

Photographed two days ago. 

These deer--and a few more--were making their rounds in the suburb, nibbling on tasty bits.

Doe On A Spring Morning

Photographed this cloudy and gray morning.

Doe In Sunlight

Photographed a couple of days ago, from my bedroom window.

Doe Grazing On A Foggy Morning

Photographed February 14.

Deer On A Winter Afternoon

Photographed yesterday afternoon.

This small doe had the meadow to herself for foraging.  There just isn't all that much left after the freezes, so the deer are spreading out when they look for food.  I saw at least one companion down the street.

Doe In Morning Light

Photographed last week, in the morning.

This doe, who looks like she's smiling, stopped to listen to me sing Mairsy Doats.

Deer Drinking Water On A Winter Morning

Deer On A January Morning

Photographed by Matt Spitzer, two days ago.

Does In The Hollow, December

These deer were hanging out in the hollow near my house, yesterday morning.

I photographed them from my car.

Doe On A December Afternoon

Yesterday afternoon, I happened on some does munching on the meadow outside our bedroom window.

I think these are all of the same doe, but there were two that allowed me to photograph them.

Deer After Sundown

These are deer I photographed last night, through my bedroom window.

This was shortly after the sun went down.

I turned on the outside light, which provides some illumination.

Turns out deer are liveliest in the hours right around sunrise and sunset.

Their vision is designed for this, which is why they freeze in headlights. They are blinded by that much light.

Doe In Autumn

Photographed this afternoon, on our street.

I played a little with this in Picasa, heightening the color saturation and sharpening it (I'm not even sure what the latter function does, but I liked the result).

She is one of a group of three, out for a meander.

Morning Walk In the Suburb

Some photos from this morning's walk.

You can see some of the leaves are changing color.

The house at the end of the creek has a beautiful rustic fence.

The does actually started to move.  I didn't stick around to find out why.  But the only reason they move this fast around here is when there's a buck around.

The neighborhood cat visited.  She's highly pet-able.

Doe in the Front Yard

It's dangerous out there:  mating season for deers is also collision season for drivers.

At left, yesterday's doe photo.

You can see some of the rock that is prevalent in the area.

The strange wires in the photo are just that:  part of Rube Goldberg-esque contraptions to raise and lower the bird feeders, mainly.

Morning Light On Doe

This morning's deer.

She had just finished drinking when I snapped this through my bedroom window.

Her next moves involved some very focused grooming/cleaning.