Shot this photo of some deer late yesterday

[Grateful11]

I'm surprised it turned out as good as it did, the sun had already set and they were probably 300 yards
away. I had my Canon SX10 zoomed all the way out and was holding it by hand. We're fairly sure the
little ones are twins as we've seen her taking them across the fields late in the evenings by herself. We
actually thought she had been hit by a car as a big doe was lying dead on the side of the road a few
weeks ago, we were hoping it wasn't her.

[rgG]

We have a pair of fawns, also twins we think, that are about that size living around our house and in our pasture. We see them most often at dusk and in the early morning.

[haikuman]

Being in these kind of moments makes us feel like we are part of a special world....
breathe....

[bazookaman]

Most of the people I work with make those same statements...minus the photo part.

[Kraniac]

Probably friends of the big eared pricks that ate all of our Hostas and Lily buds last spring...

[rgG]

Kraniac wrote:
Probably friends of the big eared pricks that ate all of our Hostas and Lily buds last spring...

Yep, I had to put netting over my hostas, but the day lilies were decimated by the deer. They also ate our pears, but I did manage to get a few figs. The birds and the squirrels probably got more than I did though.

[cbelt3]

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.

[freeradical]

I live far enough from the American River in Sacramento that I don't have to worry about deer and the damage they cause.

[AllGold]

This is along the bike path I ride almost daily. I ran (biked) home and grabbed my camera--and took a shower in mosquito spray.

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/08/13/3835828...20Pictures

http://blogs.dixcdn.com/inpictures/?p=1274

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/photo-of-th...10356.html

[haikuman]

Lovely Photo Al.. what camera and lens ...?