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  White tailed deer, Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada,Jan 15. 2023. Another yard visitor looking for water. The opening would probably be closed except Anne adds some hot water each morning.

The problem with being the first one through the dunes, you gather all the spider webs with your face. Rondeau Provincial Park, June 6, 2023. Odocoileus virginianus . -is the most widely distributed and the most numerous of all North America’s large animals - leaves its fawn unattended for hours at a time - may have difficulty surviving the winter, particularly if there are too many dee competing for food or if the snow is too deep.

White tailed deer, Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, Dec 23, 2017. After our monster storm the snow has all melted and the temperatures have been well above freezing. This image is from 5 years ago. Odocoileus virginianus • is the most widely distributed and the most numerous of all North America’s large animals • leaves its fawn unattended for hours at a time • may have difficulty surviving the winter, particularly if there are too many deer competing for food or if snow is deep • occasionally gets its antlers hopelessly entangled with those of another male during a mating season battle, resulting in the slow death of both animals source - Hinterlands who's who.

This young buck, with a new set of antlers, wandered through the dunes behind our cottage in the early morning 4 years ago. Aug 8, 2019, Rondeau Provincial Park. Odocoileus virginianus The white tailed deer is the most widely distributed and the most numerous of all North America’s large animals. It leaves its fawn unattended for hours at a time. It may have difficulty surviving the winter, particularly if there are too many deer competing for food or if snow is deep

Look closely and you can see the mosquitos around the fawns eyes. White-tailed deer fawn, Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, July 7, 2021. Seen in our yard by the water feature.

We don't get a lot of males in the yard but today we had three. One first year and two older males. You can see the mark/wound left by the shedding of the antler. Taken through the Wonderful Wildlife Window. Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, Feb 21, 2020

Came upon a doe and a fawn, mom went one way, the fawn the other. Near Blenheim ,Ontario, Canada, June 22, 2019. It realized its error and they were quickly reunited. White tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus

We put out a handful or two of cracked corn for the birds. Squirrels and deer seem to get most of it. I think we could put out several pounds and the deer would still be looking for more. Rondeau Provincial Park, February 19, 2019. Odocoileus virginianus White-tailed deer are named for their bright white underside of their tail, which they will raise when it is alarmed. Raising their tail signals to other deer that there is danger and provides a guide to follow away from danger.

We have a lot of deer coming into the yard at this time of year. There is a deer herd reduction happening just now and the deer seem to know they are safe around the cottages. At one time there were 900 deer in the park. The environment can handle approximately 60.

Not sure if this is a first year buck or not. Small antlers, makes me think of devil horns. In the yard today, through a window.

The living vacuum cleaner is at it again. Corn on the sidewalk for the cardinals and jays is sucked up in a hurry. There is more browse available to the deer now but a few still come to the yard.  Odocoileus virginianus White-tailed deer are herbivores, leisurely grazing on most available plant foods. Their stomachs allow them to digest a varied diet, including leaves, twigs, fruits and nuts, grass, corn, alfalfa, and even lichens and other fungi.

Really? I thought squirrels were bad. , a photo by ricmcarthur on Flickr. You can buy feeders that are supposed to be squirrel proof and even a few that are racoon resistant but I don't think there are any commercial deer baffles. We looked out to see a white tailed deer eating out of the platform feeder. Shins on the baffle for balance and muzzle stuck into the feeder, the tongue flicking around like an anteater's. I know there are deer flies, I have been bitten by them often enough, but I'm not aware of a deer bird. The deer are welcome to clean up under the bird feeders but I think this is just being greedy. You can see a standard sized baffle on the feeder in the foreground, actually there are two baffles as our squirrels are creative. The baffle on the platform feeder is a custom made one that even keeps racoons at bay but evidently not deer. Odocoileus virginianus

I hear you knockin' But you can't come in , a photo by ricmcarthur on Flickr. Yes another deer photo, but as long as they keep coming this close I'm going to take the photos. This was taken through the wonderful wildlife window otherwise know as the living room window. The deer come in to clean up under the bird feeders, then they look in to see if we are going to put out more. She was about 2 feet from the window, the photo is not cropped. Odocoileus virginianus

The giraffe-deer of Rondeau , a photo by ricmcarthur on Flickr. Only seen in the winter, usually during snow storms when the drifts are deep, the giraffe-deer or Rondeau browse the lower edges of trees, juniper and cedars. Here you can see a doe showing its fawn how it is done. Standing on its rear legs it stretches to get any woody material. Odocoileus virginianus Serious over browsing can occur when population levels get too high for an area. The deer is a great jumper and runner. It can reach speeds of up to 58 kilometres per hour (35mph). Take through the Wonderful Wildlife Window.

Buck buttons , a photo by ricmcarthur on Flickr. The proper name for where the antlers grow from is pedicle. Not to be confused with an icicle. This male came into the yard to eat the bird seed under our feeders. I'm not sure why his face is so white, it isn't snow. He was very skittish and didn't actual stay long enough to eat much of anything. When the rut is over the antlers are shed and are regrown every year. Photo taken through theWonderful Wildlife Window. Odocoileus virginianus)

Out the kitchen window , a photo by ricmcarthur on Flickr. Anne looked out the window and spotted this buck in the yard. He was looking at two does who were off to the left. That's our pontoon boat covered with the big blue tarp. Photo by Anne. Odocoileus virginianus

and stretch... , a photo by ricmcarthur on Flickr. and take a break. Exercise class at Rondeau can be vigorous. This white tailed deer was browsing the lowest branches of a willow tree in our yard. It stretched as far as it could to get hold of a thin hanging branch and eventually tore a piece off. We had 7 deer in the yard this afternoon. Scientific stuff Odocoileus virginianus Its diet consists mostly of green plants, nuts, and in the winter, wood vegetation. The white-tailed deer can make vertical leaps of over two and a half metres and horizontal leaps of nine metres — that’s almost as long as a school bus.

Nice salad, what's the main course. , a photo by ricmcarthur on Flickr. Cracked corn perhaps? Lettuce? Sweet peas? We have several deer that show up, usually early morning or late evening, to clean up under our bird feeders. White tailed deer -Odocoileus virginianus White-tailed deer, the smallest members of the North American deer family "White-tailed” refers to the white underside of the deer’s tail, which it displays and wags when it senses danger. Photo taken through the Wonderful Wildlife Window.

Bambi in the bushes , a photo by ricmcarthur on Flickr. While walking one of the trails in Rondeau Provincial Park, I flushed a white tailed deer. I continued walking and saw something on the path ahead of me. A fawn was on the path moving in the same direction the adult deer had gone. We looked at each other for about 5 seconds which was about 1 second more than the fawn felt comfortable with. It scurried off into the brush at the side of the trail and I was able to get a few photos. I don't know if the blue eye is a trick of the light as deer have brown eyes. Odocoileus virginianus

The Buck stopped here. , a photo by ricmcarthur on Flickr. This is probably the largest deer we have seen in the park and certainly the largest seen from the yard. He casually feed while keeping an eye on the cottage. Seen through the wonderful wildlife window.