Wanna borrow my dog? :>

Awwww! What a beautiful sight! We're happy tonight, walkin' in a winter wonderland..... But I probably wouldn't be happy to see them destroy my garden......:)

I wish the deer would check "out" of my yard, lol

TR

I get deer through the yard exactly once a year, they come up from the river in the dead of winter and eat the plants I leave on my vegetable garden, then disappear. I don't think I could handle gardening with regular summer deer visitors, I'd lose my mind.

Nice!
This one looks like it's happy and save in your yard at hunting season.

Nice shot BTW. It always amazes me the variations in their colouring...

I had a moose calf (orphan) eating in my compost box; I call it the compost buffet. :)

A baby moose would be neat. Hope it makes it thru the winter OK. I don't mind the mulies as there are not too many but if it was a herd of white tails I would have sent them packing.

It's the whitetails we have here, and our dog chases them off all the time. We don't usually have too much problem with them, for some reason (maybe the dog). They're around but the only time they seem to come into the yard is in the fall. This year after the vegetable garden was done, dh tilled everything except where the swiss chard was and then left the fence open, and they've mowed that right down. He will also put feed down for them way in the bush somewhere, and maybe that keeps them there rather than in the yard.

Looks like beegood knows the species....I'm still learning, I find it's hard without seeing it's tail or antler,...is it the large ears what makes it a mulie?
All I know is that mostly I have white tails here.

What is this?

Mulies are also more greyish in color. And for sure the big ears. Their tails do go up when they run but they don't flag them like the white tails. That's a neat picture. Was it taken with your motion sensor camera? Have you seen the ones in Veseys catalogue and if you have are they worth getting. You can also get slow motion ones for plant flowers opening.

I would say that is a white tail. Redish in color and smaller. Less bone.

Thanks...it does make sense!
Yes, picture is from my home build, not sure what Veseys has, I would try one out if you can return it when not happy, I might see our local store, the cabela's, [link below]

Here are some Whitetail's.
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Here is a link that might be useful: trail cameras

Thanks for the link. Will check it out.

We have a little interloper that sleeps under the hedge and sand cherry every night. Thankfully he has nibbled on the plums....yet.

I love rabbits ( as long as they don't chew the bark off the trees). But I wrap them with those white scrolls. Great picture!! Thanks for sharing.

Love the pics guys!! I don't get deer here in this part of the city........although the way I feed everything my DH tells me they will be a comin'! My bunnies are out there every night feeding on oats and pellets I put out for them. The dogs like to chase them out of the yard if they get the chance.

It looks to me like all the deer photos are whitetails. Just my opinion. I spent a lot of time in the country around Edmonton and mulies are not as common as the whitetails. They prefer higher ground and open areas generally. About the only way to tell them apart from a distance, especially in the winter is by their tails. Antlers on the bucks are different and can be distinguished if you can get a good look at them from a distance. Whitetails also can get rather grey in the winter, especially if they are this years fawns. And, apparently they can inter breed. Not common but more so in areas with a higher percentage of whitetails. The offspring of such tend to take on more mulie characteristics. But I didn't see any of them or the way they moved so I can only go by experience and the pics. Awesome pics again! I am envious that I can't watch the deer.....:(

Ginny

That first pic is for sure a mulie. I have lived here for 40 years and get both. I know they are not as common but they do come around.

I thought the top one was a mule deer too, they have that heavy dark "eyebrow" ridge thing. We only get whitetails around here and they do go greyer in the winter and redder in the summer.