09-13-2011, 01:46 PM
We live near a 350 acre protected Marsh that is home to at least two herds of deer, and they happily come and graze on the nice lawns and shrubs and trees. There's a definite tendency for the does to deliver twins, so we see a lot of fawns bounding around in the summer with their exhausted mommies trying to keep up.
There's also a pair of bucks that were probably twins together, and they stick together, even in mating season, which is unusual. I've named them "Herp and Derp".. they're the dopiest darn deer... last year one of them must have run into something or been hit by a car, because he was limping and one of his antlers twisted downwards while the other twisted up.
He's all better this year, and he and his brother were posing majestically a few weeks ago, showing off their huge racks and long beards.
There are some predators.. there's at least one pack of coyotes that takes a few fawns and some sick deer. But the #1 predator of deer is high speed sheet metal.
There's also a pair of bucks that were probably twins together, and they stick together, even in mating season, which is unusual. I've named them "Herp and Derp".. they're the dopiest darn deer... last year one of them must have run into something or been hit by a car, because he was limping and one of his antlers twisted downwards while the other twisted up.
He's all better this year, and he and his brother were posing majestically a few weeks ago, showing off their huge racks and long beards.
There are some predators.. there's at least one pack of coyotes that takes a few fawns and some sick deer. But the #1 predator of deer is high speed sheet metal.