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Odocoileus virginianus
The white-tailed deer is a medium-sized deer native to the United States (all but five of the states), Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America as far south as Peru. It has also been introduced to New Zealand and some countries in Europe, such as Finland, Czech Republic, and Serbia. In the Americas, it is the most widely distributed wild ungulate. In North America, the species is most common east of the Rocky Mountains, and is absent from much of the western United States, including Nevada, Utah, California, Hawaii, and Alaska. It does, however, survive in aspen parklands and deciduous river bottomlands within the central and northern Great Plains, and in mixed deciduous riparian corridors, river valley bottomlands, and lower foothills of the northern Rocky Mountain regions from South Dakota and Wyoming to southeastern British Columbia, including the Montana Valley and Foothill grasslands.
Semi rural.
I got to watch these 2 young deer through the bathroom window most mornings last fall. They would chase each other around & groom each other - always under mom's watchful eyes! Some evenings we have 7 or 8 does & young in our front yard but strangely we rarely see any bucks!
Spotted on Sep 8, 2011
Submitted on Feb 21, 2012
16 Comments
Thanks kuan-der!
East end, it is strange. I do hear one snorting in the woods occasionally but that's about it - maybe he's camera shy!
So cute! I like the shot of mom keeping a watchful eye. I love watching fawns romp around too. Wonder why bucks don't visit your yard. (Not a problem where I am - have plenty of photos of them)
Indeed! Yes, they are all wearing their dark shaggy coats at the moment!
No need to apologize, Karen! I would just have been surprised if they had been born so late.
Oops sorry Maria - I forgot to change the date!
Those spottings are from a few months back, not today, right, Karen? The fawns don't still have spots now, do they? I find the deer here will eat a quite varied diet; they really like bird seed a lot.
Awesome! That explains your expertise in those areas!
Yes, I'm a herp/invert/AQ keeper. (basically everything but birds and mammals)
Haha, very true! I guess it is better for them to have a natural diet - even if that does mean we will have some mutilated trees!
Do you work at a zoo Goody?
Perhaps the deer know something we don't?? ;-)
Apart from deer feed blocks! The foxes, turkeys & crows eat the feed we put out for the deer!
It's comical to see the protection our horticulture staff had to put around the trees they planted in the zoo's deer yard. Those guys will eat anything!
Well, we are building a wildlife habitat so we only have ourselves to blame!
Sorry to hear that !
Thanks Gerardo!
Yes we are blessed - though the downside is they have been munching on all the trees we planted last year!
wow this so grate to have them in the yard
Grate series!