Saw this mighty proud young buck in our backyard tonight:
I'm loving this camera - 25,600 ISO, 24-105 lens at F4 and dusk became sharp and clear - through a window no less and it would lock in focus no problem.
The buck was strutting through the backyard like he owned the place.
He also rubbed his antlers against a tree
He then proudly marched off, following the trail of a doe that had come through just minutes earlier.
He's got some definite injuries to his front legs - when I posted the pic on Facebook, an outdoorsman friend of mine and a veterinarian friend of mine both immediately picked up on it, noting the left is looking calcified and the right atrophied.
Pretty amazing how they picked up on that so quickly, and I got to sit back and learn some new things, which was very cool indeed.
He's been around the neighborhood for awhile now, but this is the first time he remained in our backyard for longer than a flash and with enough time for me to grab the camera. Hopefully, he makes it through the upcoming winter and sticks around.
3 comments:
Very cool.
What did the vet speculate regarding possible causes of the weird front legs?
Eaton Rapids Joe: Their observation and speculation was that the right leg was broken at one point, and then left leg overgrew to compensate and subsequently overgrew and calcified.
Nice!!!
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