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Looks like the boys are back to tolerating one another. About 30 yds from this keyboard as I'm typing. Neighborhood 4 x 3 (left that's been around for about 3 years) and a slightly smaller 4 by just out our back door. Should be another similar 4 by with them but can't seem to spot him. Might be just over the hill. Recent precip looks to have bleached some of the color from their antlers. Will be interesting to see how they shape up next fall. There are some discriminating ear notches we can work with.

Kool..........

Should be kickin' the antlers off soon eh ?

Love that Eastern Oregon color palette

Cool 1minute, wish the boys would hang out here. Usually just have them passing thru

Just a 13 in the "backyard" last evening right before dark



One doe has white tips on the ears it seems and there's one "buck" there with them. I've been wondering about it as I get it on the trail cams at times, always with the does, never with the bucks. I'm starting to wonder if it might be an antlered doe?

white ear tip doe on the right, "buck" with weird forward pointing spikes behind the fence post there



Better pic after cropping one of the weird spike. Deer appears to be full grown, so probably not a yearling spike,

Heck, I only live on a 1.5 acre piece of property. Its blacktails over here instead of Mule deer. but to have 12 to 15 in the yard every day is no big deal. What is cool, but then a pain in the keester, is when we have 20 to 40 elk in the yard.

So saturated ground from the endless rain for a week, and 4 hoofs x 20 to 40 elk, each time they take a step, I've got 4 new coffee cups sized divots in my yard. x 20 to 40 elk. Isn't living in harmony with Mother Nature wonderful?

Even more fun times when we experience, 15 to 20 deer in the yard, grazing in one spot, and then 20 to 40 turkeys grazing across the yard in another direction and then 20 to 40 Canadian geese grazing on the grass, taking a bill full to eat and depositing a couple of big green turds for every time they eat and swallow.

then the ruckus we get to enjoy when the three groups all intersect each other in some part of the yard.... geese and turkeys snapping at deer... bucks lowering their antlers to chase geese and turkeys away.. geese and turkeys attacking each other....

Isn't living with Mother Nature wonderful? Our NEW California transplants just LOVE IT. Just like living in the middle of a zoo, right in the front yard! they take pictures and then send them to all their friends back in California, and inspiring them to want to move here also.... Like we have a shortage of those also.

Awesome pics, Geno.