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White-tailed Deer – Rosslyn Redux

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  • Spring Dance: Coyotes and White Tail Deer

    Spring Dance: deer crossing trail camera during spring 2017 (Source: Geo Davis)
    Spring Dance: deer crossing trail camera during spring 2017 (Source: Geo Davis)

    One trail cam. One location. Three months, give or take. Deer. Coyotes. And the transition from winter to spring in the Adirondacks’ Champlain Valley.

    Spring Dance 2017: coyote crossing trail camera during spring 2017 (Source: Geo Davis)
    Spring Dance: coyote crossing trail camera during spring 2017 (Source: Geo Davis)

    The perspective, situated near a fence opening at the transition of scrub forest and meadows offers a glimpse of the dance between ungulates (white tailed deer) and native canids (Eastern coyote). From awkward youngsters to healthy adults to slightly mangy elders, this short series of photographs taken with a relatively unsophisticated trail cam illuminates the springtime interplay of two increasingly ubiquitous species in our local ecosystem.

    I hope you find it as interesting as I did!

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4beO0XdaoY&rel=0&w=550&showinfo=0 ]

    Oh, yes, there are a couple of human spottings in the video (slide show) above. Who are they? Unfamiliar to me. And unclear what they were were doing wandering this fence line…

    Nota Bene: If the video / slide show above was too benign for you, here’s a fascinating (and somewhat disturbing) video of a small coyote (or two?) attacking and eventually eating a mature buck.

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  • Year-End Yearling

    Year-End Yearling

    Year End Yearling​ (Photo: Rosslyn Wildlife Camera)
    Year End Yearling​ (Photo: Rosslyn Wildlife Camera)

    This whitetail deer yearling (or a precocious fawn perhaps?) is as curious about one of our wildlife camera as the camera is about her. Okay, I’m not 100% confident this year-end yearling is a doe, but those eyes, those eyelashes, that movie star gaze. She’s beguiling for sure!

    Whitetail Deer Yearling

    Year End Yearling​ (Photo: Rosslyn Wildlife Camera)
    Year End Yearling​ (Photo: Rosslyn Wildlife Camera)

    A whitetail deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in its first year is considered a fawn, and until it turns two years old it is considered a yearling. A “year-end yearling”, if born in late May or early June as whitetail deer in the Adirondacks typically are, would be about eighteen months old.

    She’s one of several adolescent and mature whitetails that have been mugging for the camera lately. And plenty of Eastern Coyotes too, so a year-end yearling like this beauty had best keep herself alert and energetic at all times!