Wildlife activity seems to have been pretty low lately – hot
humid weather has the same effect on wildlife as it does on us. It hasn’t been
extremely hot, but for many days the humidity has been truly oppressive, so I checked
my camera traps in the cool of the morning.
Had a couple of photos of a bear –
and an opossum, but surprisingly most of the photos were of
bucks, from a young one with small antlers –
To bucks with larger antlers –
The buck in the last picture was even caught in what would have
been a regal pose, except he chews with his mouth open.
A few miles away, a camera trap caught a buck that looks
almost identical. But it’s not the same deer; even if distance didn’t preclude
them from being the same animal, a look at the brow tine on the right antler shows
they are different bucks.
The camera trap also caught another buck; this time it was one
that was probably less than a month old standing beside his mother.
By zooming in on the photo the tiny buck’s diminutive
pedicles can be seen.
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