The buck stops here! The Saturday gamecam photo

A nice blacktail buck and a Really nice blacktail buck.  At least for around here. 

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The mineral block seems to be helping! I am not a hunter. I am somewhat of a shooter, and like to do some long range shooting, but I leave these guys alone. A spike elk every couple of years gives us more than enough meat for the freezer. I don't trophy hunt, but then I am fortunate in that unlike most people, I am able to live amongst them. I am happier seeing these guys show up on the game camera or occasionally getting a glimpse of them in the woods (rarely the big ones). Pulling the game camera cards is like getting a Christmas gift every week. I never know what will be on them, and the big bulls and bucks are a special treat. 

A nice couple of days with good weather, family, deer, honey bees, and things to photograph.

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The barn bees swarmed and I didn't have a hive ready. They were low and easy to get at too. 

Wildflower, A Lilly.  Brodiaea terrestris

(with tiny ants)

I pretty sure it's our native rhodie.  Rhododendron macrophyllum . Not spurge laurel (Daphne laureola), which is an invasive plant and looks similar to me when it's not flowering. 

  

Me, Daisy & my sister

Had to cut that Scotch Broom seedling!

Getting a camera card.

Daisy had fun as usual.

The wood duck nest box with a red shafted flicker borrowing it.

Schizophyllum commune. Each about the size of a quarter. It is the world's most widely distributed and the most studied mushroom in the world, occurring on every continent except Antarctica. Growing on a fallen oak.

Doe & faun

they seem to like this spot, as they are here just about every day.

More deer on the Game cam.

We took the Jeep to cut some Broom that I knew had been missed by the machine and I thought I might as well pull a couple of camera cards, even though they had only been in the cameras a couple of days.        The bucks are growing some nice antlers this year!
As usual, click on the photo for full size.

Stretched  image from his motion. This guy with the antler laying down over his right eye shows up every year. 

It doesn't seem to affect him. He looks healthy.

The next couple of photos are of a doe & her twins. Last week I came across them in the trail on the way up the hill but I didn't have my camera. This tim,e I did, but by the time I switched from the macro lens to the 200mm they were off the road and on the way up the hill. Maybe next time I'll get a better photo.

Lots of game on the cameras!

Here are a few out of about 2000 similar shots from three cameras over the last eleven days.

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Cute! isn't she?

Checking out the camera.

His tail went up when he saw the coyote!

But he thinks he can handle him.

The coyote left & the buck went back to the mineral block.

The antlers are growing pretty fast!

Theirs too!

Having fun.

Homeless can't eat Deer Meat

The Homeless can't eat Deer Meat?
Well I guess they could if the Dept. of Health and Hospitals in Lousiana let them, but they won't.
What a waste! Typical of the government these days.
From Whitetail Woods

deer, Roosevelt elk and bears. Game cam photos

Well, I set the camera up on the wasp nest for the bear and he returned. The problem is that the second nest was too far away for the infrared flash. He only showed up at night, but I got some nice photos of him eating the apples I tossed there, a number of different deer, and our Muddy Valley resident elk herd. The camera took about 1,200 photos. I tossed a few hundred. Some just too dark at night, and a lot of close ups of elk hide. There was a series when an elk licked the lens which started out black and then fuzzy until the camera dried off. Also some blurry shots when the T-post I have the camera on was used as a back-scratcher.
The Lazy Farmer is probably not talking to me now as I emailed way too many photos to him and probably crashed his I.S.P. which is not the fastest, as we are on the fringes of modern civilization here.
If you click on one of the pictures, you can enlarge it. A neat feature I recently discovered.

There were several nice bulls

 He's looking at the wasp hole the bear dug up!

The time stamp says 14:55. I checked the camera at 15:15. They were probably watching me as I drove up in the jeep.