I don't think I have ever seen so many deer in one area before. The weird thing is they don't seem to be afraid of the guy squatting down.
Wildlife refuge maybe?
Looking at his clothing I almost want to say it could be in Europe because of the logo on his pants.
Any clues?
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You don’t need a rifle. A baseball bat should work :)
Finland maybe.. damn, that’s a hugh herd of deer.
Deer can lose their fear of people. I got up one morning to find a buck and doe chowing down on my wife's roses. I had to throw rocks to drive them away.
It’s a commercial deer farm (venison producer). No need for rifle or bat. They’ll prepare it for you.
Deer don’t like trudging through deep snow anymore than we do and herding up during winter is common. The less energy expended means a better chance at surviving until spring.
If you look closely at the bottom of both pictures, you can see that these animals are being fed. Look at the second deer in the second picture...that’s grain.
Vike,
I got these pics in an email yesterday. If you look at the second pic, you can see that almost all of them are chowing down. I know of one feeding station in the Valley Park, where large herds come in to feed. This seems like it might be a commercial enterprise.
Doc
A cousin of mine, who lives near Rushford, Minnesota, sent me this photo a few weeks ago, and said this scene was photographed in that locale. Rushford is in
Fillmore County, on the Iowa border.
Regarding my msg of a few minutes earlier, about this scene being photographed near Rushford, Minnesota:
Taking a closer look at the trees, I’m inclined to doubt that location. I’m familiar with that part of the state, having lived near Rushford during my boyhood years (1931-40), and remember the woodlands there being almost exclusively deciduous hardwoods, with a scattering of scrubby dwarf junipers in cleared areas, especially on south and west facing slopes.
The pics were taken last year by a friend of mine at Lake Metigoshe, Bottineau, North Dakota. Up in the Turtle Mountains (yes, ND has mountains lol) Wife and I used to camp just down the road at a small park called Strawberry Lake. Imagine my surprise when I saw these!
Neat pictures! I’ve never seen so many deer in one place either. I love deer (not as food).
There are two people standing at the far end of the deer in the second photo and one of them looks like Santa’s helper scouting for next years team. My guess is someone was feeding them from a snowmobile. I took a photo of 12 deer in my neighbors yard a couple of months ago. We live 5 minutes from downtown Eureka Ca...
A friend sent me these pictures about a week ago. He said that they were shot near Boise (where he lives).
He sent them to a list that has about 200 people on it mostly from northern California.
Yeeeee Haaaawwww!!!
I used to go in to work for a 3am shift. One day on my drive (I was doing about 70 on a secondary road) I came around a curve to see about a dozen deer just strolling down the road. Fortunately they scattered when my tires started screeching. I passed within inches of two of them. I was close enough that I could see how wide-eyed one doe was. She probably saw the same expression on my face.