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Abnormal deer antlers

Abnormal deer antlers

I recently pulled the memory card from my trail camera, and in addition to the expected eastern cottontail rabbits and “normal” white-tailed deer, the area in front of my camera was visited numerous times by a deer with an abnormal antler formation. I have never encountered anything like this before, and some brief googling regarding abnormal antler growth produced a fascinating array of bizarre antler shapes and forms, but nothing that quite resembled the drooping club of an antler that…

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Deer nuzzle

Deer nuzzle

I’ve had a lot of white-tailed deer around my recent trail camera placement. In fact, after almost a month, with the exception of a couple gray squirrels that scampered by, the deer have been my only visitors. Having placed the camera down by the edge of a river, I’d hoped to get more animals passing by to have a drink. The deer, however, have certainly kept me entertained. They’ve come by singly or in groups as large as 5. Although…

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Pumpkin Party

Pumpkin Party

Although most people are deep in a Christmas planning mode right now, we’ve just finished up a late fall pumpkin party in our backyard.  What do you do with your old Halloween pumpkins? Typically we just toss them in our compost bin, but this year after cutting the pumpkin in half to expose the seeds inside, we set it out in our back woods and trained our trail camera on it to see who would come to partake. Over a…

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White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)

White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)

Despite a healthy population of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) on Cape Cod, and seeing considerable signs of their presence out in the forest (e.g., scat, tracks, hairs that had fallen off where the deer bedded down, etc.) this was the first deer I’ve seen on my trail camera after having it out and about for almost 3 months. To be fair, however, I was targeting coyotes with this particular location, and for that I have been relatively successful in catching…

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Backyard Wildlife Revealed

Backyard Wildlife Revealed

I spend a lot of time in my yard, or at least a lot of time looking out the window at my yard – probably more than most people. But even so, there is so much time when I’m not able to observe the comings and goings of animals on my property. This is particularly true at night – when I’m asleep and many of our local mammals are more active. I can only watch for so much of the…

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