Saturday 7 January 2012

Hiking at Medway Creek

My friend Stephanie and I went for a hike at Medway Creek.  We found fox tracks, which led us to a fox den.  We also checked on a shelter I built several days ago.  By far the most exciting part was when we came upon three deer.  We had seen two does from afar earlier, but this time we got within 20 yards easily.  There were two bucks and a doe.  The smaller buck had one small antler with two points on it.  The larger buck had a full rack, but he kept it hidden behind brush for the most part.  Last year he had 6 points, this year it looked like he had more.  My camera unfortunately ran out of battery power after two pictures, so the vast majority of the credit for photography should go to Steph.

These are my photos:

Note the deer tracks leading around the shelter.

Side view.


The enterance.

She fits inside much better than I do.



These are Stephanies photos:


This is the one antlered deer.  He stood funny for a bit, then proceeded to drink his pee or something...


Drinking pee I guess? 


Him realizing that we saw the whole thing.

This is the bigger buck.

If anyone knows what the little buck was doing, please leave a comment.

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