They are beautiful! So healthy looking. Makes my little guy pale in comparison...makes me love him all the more.

Deer are absolutely one of my favorite animals. They are so incredibly beautiful.

Coming into town one day, a whole slew of cars stopped as 8 deer ran across the highway. A couple of mommas and a bunch of babies. God it was beautiful.

Thank you for sharing! They are so wonderful!

awwww...

wonderful pictures.

Great Antlers! So much more noble with them!

We only get moms and fawns in the summer. We don't live there year round.
The females chase the males away. We have seen some huge fights etc.
I guess nursing females have "priority".

Here is another:

The salt block is to the right of the mother..it is a brown, mineral one that year.
It is small.. 3x8inches or so. I don't leave large ones, too damaging to the
trees etc. The females nursing fawns need alot of salt for their milk.

I have found that deer will eat any discarded food. Potatoe chips (stale), breakfast cereal, any fruit--they love cantaloupe rinds and watermelon, even old potatoes. Of course they love carrots too. I put out all my peelings for them, in the summer.

oh what a special thread

when I lived in Africa, and used to spend my free time travelling in the large animal conservation areas, I would love it when the deer came to the waterholes and streams early in the morning.......watching the young 'uns play was a special treat!

thanks for sharing

awwww come on mrsd..share some fresh potato chips.

hehe..i know what you mean. when i lived in minnesota we fed the deer. they loved "leftovers".

I just saw a doe about 3 blocks from our house on the way home from the video store a little bit ago
she reminded me of this thread......

Our deer are very well fed...they get stuff they would never normally get.
Even Soy crackers! LOL

When we leave for the summer, it is too hard bringing most of the left overs
back. We live on an island, so even trash is an issue. I do not leave food
over the winter there, since animals will chew thru walls to get to it.
I have one Rubbermaid sealable large tote I put sugar, rice, salt in. I don't even leave cans..they get very strange after being frozen.

Some of our food leavings are pretty exotic..and everything gets eaten, except for onions and cabbage. Even the bunnies this year were chowing down on
chips!

here is a bunny picture: Never had tame bunnies before..I figured they were starving.
You can see the bunnies (hare) here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrs_doubtfyre

I have a good pic of a bunny in my camera with a huge chip in his mouth.
I'll try posting it tomorrow, since I have to work late today, and am just leaving. It is pretty funny. Maybe we could get Lays to use it someday? LOL

Does...I mean...those are some great pics.

Mrs.D - I'm not sure what she's about to nibble on, but it looks like she's saying to you: "Good, keep him distracted while I finish off what's on his plate."

Alffe - Your little guy looks just fine.

Boy did I have a struggle with this camera. I guess my new back up drive,
is interfering with it. sigh...

But I managed to download this picture finally.

This is a wild hare, eating the left over soy chips. (I eat these instead of
potato chips often, but I have to bring them with me, since they don't sell
them up there). They are flavored with basil and tomato.

The chip in his mouth is blurry since he was chewing on it.

Edit to add.... we just bought this digital camera..and are still trying to learn
how to use it. It is a 12x zoom, that is how I got this shot. I was not close to him at
all...probably at least 30-40 ft away. But they did let us pretty close for bunnies.
Never before in the history of our summer place (since 1905) has anyone been
this close!

This picture was taken at the "feeding rock" the same one that the deer above are on.
You can see corn, and sunflower seeds there too. We give both of those as well.