Look what stumbled into my back yard!

[kurtiss]

So I am upstairs when my wife starts screaming, "there is a deer in our yard". I yell downstairs, "yeah right, I am sure it's a dog". She continues yelling about the "deer", so I go down to investigate. I look out the window and yell, "Holy crap! There is a deer in our yard". I grab the camera, and then as stealthy as I can, make my way around back. There he is, a little fawn. Very cute. His Spots are almost gone. I watched him for a little while, and then spooked him with the camera.

We moved to this new area, away from the city. We have got some serious wildlife around us. It's very cool. Gives me a nice little charge outside of hunting season!

 

[chubbmann]

Very cool, thank you for sharing. I would love to have such a pretty yard in range of big game. You are very blessed.

 

[rantingredneck]

Very cool.

I get upset when they eat my peaches off my tree in my back yard and my grapes off my vines. But then I remember that I could be cooped up in the city somewhere. I'll take the wildlife .

Literally when they're in season

I've had a family of rabbits nesting under my pool deck this year too. I come home from work and the back yard is full of bunnies, then they hightail it for cover. Mother in law has had bunnies under her grape vines the last week or so. Just opened their eyes and started hopping around a few days ago.

City folks can have the city........

 

[Kingcreek]

When my wife and I married 18 years ago, it was with the understanding that when circumstances allowed we would be moving back to my rural heartland. My city-bred civilized bride and I made the move 12 years ago to the old farmstead. I knew it was the right thing to do, she wasn't so sure. She wouldn't leave the house in the dark because of the coyotes, and wouldn't go near the barn because of mice, snakes and whatever else might lurk there. Now she can't imagine living in town again.
The first time she looked out and saw deer in the yard she screamed me out of the shower. She was so excited I thought the kitchen curtains had caught fire. Now she just tells me the dam things are eating her flowers and the freezer is getting low on venison.

enjoyed the cute little deer pics- thanks.

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

Mmmm, tender baby venison; nice. Biding my time til I get way back in the woods as well.

 

[JShirley]

It IS a dog!

How big do those get, anyway? Is that a Key deer? Doesn't look like a whitetail.

Thanks for the pics.

John

 

[The Tourist]

Come to Wisconsin.

I live in a suburban area. There are so many deer they are a nuisance to potted plants and traffic.

We had a black bear sighting last year.

I saw a cable program last night on alligators and crocodiles. One pest removal service opined that the gators were not invading our territory, but we were branching out and building in their habitats.

I believe that. My Dad built one of the first homes in newly subdivided farm land. He built a patio in paved cement. This was in the old town of Fussville, which became part of Menomonee Falls.

The next morning dozens of pheasants, song birds and one hawk were found on the patio--drying their wings.

It was 1956.

 

[MCgunner]

Danged jackalopes are spreading east!

 

[glockman19]

Teh only reason I have a problem with hunting deer is because a family took up home in my backyard. The ate all the roses, agapanthis and left nice pellet mounda in the lawn. But they were/are breautiful and magestic. I just can't pull thetrigger on one, and I love venison. That's why i shoot pigs instead.

 

[TehK1w1]

Looks like a Key Deer to me, but I'm no expert(yet). It's certainly not a whitetail.

 

[Gibbles]

I have a couple bucks that like to hang out in my back yard and my neighbors. one of them is just shedding his antler fuzz.

I opend my back door one night and I hit something, I whip out my flash light and I see a cute little skunk stare around the door at me, then start hopping around waving his tail at me while bouncing, I quickly shut the door.

Cute little bugger, and I never did smell him.

 

[dagger dog]

The avantages of living in what most of my friends call "the sticks", turkey deer, rabbit, fox ,coyote,skunk, racoon, 'possum and squirrel all call the back yard home. Not to mention the bird species.
I'ts nice to have two or three pair of binocular, a set in the kitchen bathroom , living room.

I had to cut down my apple trees 'cause it was bringing the deer, up to close to the road.

If I had the money to move to another location It would be deeper into Mother Natures wonders.

 

[jetrecbn]

I live in the city, but I have a trail walk and a wadi right behind me. Across the washout are 5 acre lots. I have deer, horses, turkeys, rabbits, and squirrels for my viewing pleasure. I would take the wild life over sagging retards any day.

 

[gregormeister]

I agree, If I had my choice of the city or the sticks...I'd pick the sticks.
I lived in the "city" for awhile and thought I'd go crazy...Thank the lord for deer, skunk, opposums, turkeys and all the other awesome animals I see daily.

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

You know Tourist, with what you and others say about the whitetail situation in Wisconsin, and what I glean here and there, it sounds like your ratios are way out of whack (massive doe overpopulation, very few bucks due to hunting and the attitude of hunters not being interested in taking does). So I would bet that those few bucks left are absolutely exhausted after the rut, and wouldn't be surprised if quite a few die from exhaustion after trying to breed several dozen does, and not eating much for weeks on end. Now, I'm not sure if I should envy those bucks or feel sorry for them - the live a very hard and very tiring life, probably cut short by exhaustion or a hunter, but man oh man, what a glorious ride with lots of action.

 

[FXWG]

Sometimes it feels like my backyard should be on an episode of Wild Kingdom.
And I live in Jacksonville FLA.
I've got deer, fox, possum, racoons, skunk, armadillos, snakes, lizards and
way too many types of large birds (herons, egrets, ibises, vultures, hawks, buzzards, osprey, owls...)

 

[xd45gaper]

they have bald eagles in jax florida to dont forget to keep your small dogs unattended

 

[Wildfire]

Very cool.

Hey there :
Nice !!
This winter I'll try and post some pics. i live in the sticks and we will have sometimes Hundreds of Deer within 200 feet of the house. We get some deep snow at times and they come from every where to eat the left over corn.

I had a very large pile of snow from My Kubota accros the road from my place (Dead end road) . The deer were all over that plie of snow.
They also come into the drive way to lick the bumper and tail gate of my truck for the road salt. MICHIGAN.....

 

[kurtiss]

Thanks for all the comments everybody. I am pretty sure this is a good Florida swamp whitetail fawn that has lost his spots. I am just south of Jacksonville, and as far as I know, we don't have key deer or any type of exotics anywhere near here.

 

[Navy joe]

I took some pictures of Key deer and it's a big letdown if you weren't there. Me with my land seeing up to 15 deer at a time and people wondering why I was taking all these pictures of whitetail. Now if I could have held a ruler next to their miniature rumps that would have been revealing. Fawn size full grown. Cute.

 

[Sistema1927]

Wildlife shows up in the most amazing places.

I was taking my lunch time walk at work today, and scared up a covey of ~16 quail. It is nothing to see dove, jack rabbits, cotton tails, coyotes, etc., and my office is less than 2 miles from downtown Albuquerque, 100 yards from the Interstate, and 1/4 mile from the intersection of I-40 and I-25.

 

[BIGR]

Here is how close I got to mama and Bambi about a week ago.

 

[Elypops]

A few months back my brother & family from Las Vegas were visiting my daughter and her family. While my son in-law and brother were in the back yard solving all the problems of the world some visitors happened by.

As has been well described by others.... later in the spring the deer ate the tops off of the corn and squash in the veg garden and decimated the flowers.

 

[hatchetbearer]

Growing up, We had several apple trees just of of a wooded area. deer EVERYWHERE. for 6 or 7 years our hunting went: wait until sunrise, stick gun out window, take the shot, drink a cup of coffee, get dressed to go claim the kill. got some nice 10 pointers too.

 

[peterc]

Hi from Australia. I'm not an expert but I think the deer photo in original post is an exotic..........prob. a muntjac.