Birds

Four days after the first sighting

Well this was after I had been at camp for four or five days and the same little buck came within 30 feet of my camp. I was actually set up below the other camp by 100 feet or more so it was a little more quiet where I was and that is probably why he would come so close. (Plus the rest of the camp was not very close to their camp at that time.) I know it is the same little buck now as I look through all of the images since the side of his body was so scruffy on the one side and appears that way in all three sets of images. It was a fun week getting to see him so often.

This is when I made a movement and he caught it just enough to make him a little bit nervous but he still calmed down and just kept grazing as he passed behind my tent and moved further East from my area.

As he was moving away from me the sun caught his antlers and made the velvet really glow. It was very beautiful.

Two days later Same small buck

This was almost the same spot as the first day but I didn't see the second buck this time. I am pretty certain this was the same small buck that I had seen here just two days earlier with the larger one.

This was probably yet another small buck even though the markings seem a lot the same on this one so I am not sure if they were one in the same or not.  I spotted this one however that same morning just a few minutes after I had photographed the first image in this blog. We had fun though and it was almost as though we were playing hide and seek since the following series of images were shot over the next half hour or so.

Peek a boo

He decided it was time to leave however this time for good.

Fun Hunting with a Camera

While attending a Timberline course at the Mt. Pleasant scout camp (now called Camp Tifie), I was responsible for the cleanliness of the entire camp and not just the area where the course was being conducted. I was the Course Director so I had time to walk around the camp while the Scoutmaster ran the course. I usually got up at daybreak or before to make my rounds through the camp area which gave me opportunity to see the wildlife that was in the camp before the rest of the camp was up making noise to scare them off. One morning when I got to the southern end of the camp about a half mile from where all the activity of the course was conducted I went onto the road headed down the canyon from the camp. It was the road we would come up to the camp on when we drove in but was seldom on it the rest of the week. Well I saw this one lone buck that had not spotted me due to the wind going the right direction to prevent it from smelling me.

I took probably 30 images of it as I watched it. I was being very careful not to move so as to not scare it off. I did take an occasional step down the road so I could get a little closer to it. I thought it was by itself until one more step revealed a larger buck that was hidden from my view by the bushes.

Again I stood very still since at this point the older buck knew something wasn't quite right but couldn't really tell since again it hadn't smelled me either. The younger one though knew something wasn't right either and by now was starting to get a little skittish. It turned to move into the brush but since the older one didn't follow it circled back around to be by the larger buck again.

Then I moved ever so slightly just in case more bucks were below them and that started the older one to no longer doubt it's senses that something was wrong. It started to move away and the younger one followed. They still were not in a  big hurry but they didn't stop to feed agin until they were out of sight.

Little did I know I would see the younger buck twice more that week and those image will follow in another blog entry.

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