The deer are here

We usually don't see the deer so much in the winter as they apparently go to the deeper thicker wooded areas around us but now they are starting to show up in the yard as food may have gotten scarce.    I had seen them last week so I got some corn for the corn feeder to see if they would come.

So they did!   Yesterday I saw six but it was too dark to get a photo out the window.  Today these two showed up just after it got light enough for photos.   One is a young male with the little tiny horns just starting to poke through, the other is a female.   She appears to notice my movement in the window but did not run away.        I am hoping that the white socked buck that will be two years old will show up.  He is very distinctly marked and I can tell him from all the others because of his white feet.

We always see deer that have been hit and killed along the roads here but with six showing up and mostly being younger deer I have great hope that the herd is thriving that lives around my area.    

A closer look at the young buck in the extras.   Isn't nature amazing in that he loses those antlers every winter and new grow back every spring?!!!