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The Hang-Out
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Deer Love – An Intimate Look
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Summer Shade
The odds were good that I would find the herd of bucks at the hang-out in the middle of this sweltering hot summer day, where the trees provide shade and the resident human provides bird food.
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Key Deer Bucks
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Key Deer Brotherly Love
The bucks have shed their antlers and new black stubs are emerging while they engage in the most peaceful stage of the Key Deer world I call Brotherly Love. As they participate in grooming behavior towards one another it is difficult to imagine that five months ago they were fighting to the death over the herds’ […]
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Key Deer Bucks in Velvet
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In Velvet
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HAPPY 31st BIRTHDAY CASEY!!!
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Key Deer Hang-Out
The place at the end of the block where I find the deer reminds me of the hang-out in the alley my teen-age friends and I used to meet, looking for boys. You could never tell who would be in the alley at any time of the day or night, much like this place on […]
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The Place Where Key Deer Sleep
Deep in the middle of the subdivision, the Key Deer have indeed found a tropical refuge, lush with soft green grass and moist soil, shaded by the web of branches which overhang low to the ground. The earth adopts a musky smell when they are around. The herd has developed a highway of trails deep […]
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Key Deer Brotherly Love
The absence of any females is a good sign that they are somewhere in the woods birthing and caring for the newborn Key Deer of this season. The mothers hide the fawns for about a month before reemerging to join the others. Notice all antlers have fallen off now. The males like to band and […]
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A Herd of Key Deer
The antlers in this herd of 14 are in different stages. Some have already fallen off. One deer was rubbing his stack against a wood stump, trying to release it (photo#3). Another male is in the process of growing a new set and the velvet covering the growth is visible (photo#8). The more I get […]
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Key Deer and a Spoonbill
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Key Deer
Watching this herd of Key Deer down the block from my house is an incredible gift I feel bestowed upon me. Each moment is precious as I see the animals interacting with each other. I am amazed to witness two males grooming each other. I am still amazed even after living on this island for […]
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The End of Antler Season and the Man who Feeds the Deer
When the man arrived home the Key Deer RAN to him as if they were his pet dogs. They waited for him outside his house, all eleven of them, mostly males. When I told the man that feeding the deer kills them, he denied doing so, even though he was holding a bag of food […]
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DO NOT FEED the Key Deer
I have discovered that someone is feeding the Key Deer right down the street from me, attracting the herd of nine I saw yesterday.Then again today I saw four bucks eating pellets the humans gave them. Haven’t the people lived here long enough to realize that feeding the deer is harmful for them? It keeps […]
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Key Deer
Although I did not see it for myself, a couple from New York told me they saw a Key Deer nursing, the first of the babies to be born this season. Instead, I saw a herd of nine deer resting in the afternoon shade in the woods. There were five males and two of the […]
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