I had to make a trip to Grand Junction, CO to visit my sister, Sandy. It turned out to be a pretty busy thing, so I didn’t get much posted from there. But I am home now on my place in the middle of the local deer woods. Below are pictures I took the morning before my trip. They are pretty interesting,
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Early in the morning, with not quite good daylight, but still enough to take a low light picture, I noticed some antlers poking up in the nearby tall weeds to my left.
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The buck was moving slow and I could see his antlers turn in different directions I knew he was looking all around. in 5 minutes he was poking up out of the weeds in a more photo taking scenario. I took his picture. It was Ybuck. His velvet is getting compressed around his main beams and tines. So it won’t be long before he sheds his velvet.
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Ybuck meandered around and soon came out of the high weeds.
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Then Ybuck hooked a left and that change aimed him toward my ground blind, me, and my Sony.Â
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He paused briefly and looked around carefully. I liked this picture the best.
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So I zoomed in tighter on him and grabbed a close up. You can see his “Y” brow tine in the picture.
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Ybuck is a good looking buck. If he can get 2 or 3 years more on him he will be a real dandy.
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A low noise in the woods caught his attention and he turned and looked toward whatever it was. I couldn’t see it. He wiggled his tail as he watched the area ahead of him.
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Then Ybuck walked into the woods and casually strolled out of sight.
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Later that afternoon Ybuck walked out of the same general area where he had been this morning when he left. Â
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I took some more pictures but I don’t want to wear you out with a bunch more pictures of the same buck so we’ll close out now.
Life is good in the deer woods.