Odd.
 

Since I retired I walked my dog/s 2 times a day in the woods and vacant field next door. since that time I have also talked to the deer, Hi Momma were just passing thru the dogs won't hurt you and such things. Saturday morning walking the pup we stop cause the pup wants to smell a hollow chunk of wood I left a few years ago. I hear a noise behind us so turn and here is a raggedy looking doe about the size that would make her last years fawn just 20 feet away. I start talking to her and telling the pup whoa in the same breath. I get the pup going again and that little doe follows us till the got to the creek and crossed on the log. Saturday evening we again go on our walk, cross the creek to get in the main woods on the bridge. As soon as we are across this little raggedy doe is back standing about 10 feet away. this time she fallows us and wades the creek when we cross the log in the back. She stays 10 to 20 feet behind us the whole 45 minute's we walk. Once we get to the pond where we make the turn for home she stays behind.
Sunday Morning she meets us again after we cross the bridge and walks with us the whole route. Sunday night she was absent but I was an hour later than usual. this morning On our 7:00 AM quickie walk she is again waiting on us but just outside the kennel door. Again she walks with us and even takes a short cut to meet us on the next path. I told the pup we could name her raggedy but soon as she sheds she will be a beautiful reddish brown.

I just find it odd this deer following us and listening to me talk to her and the pup.






:D Al

Interesting behavior.
But not so strange when you consider that deer are highly social animals and curious by nature. I'd bet that the presence of the non threatening pup sparked her curiosity.
Hopefully this deer's comfort with people doesn't end badly for her.

Enjoy the moment and retirement. I guess animals can be curious at times just like us. :D

Interesting thing I learned Sunday. Deer can become used to a person like me walking the dog(s) in the woods twice a day and talking to them. They know the difference when some one else walks the dog in the woods and the difference in their voices.
they also seem some how to know when your hunting and when your not.

:D Al

Nature is fantastic

Isn't that the truth.

I would agree with that, see deer all the time outside of hunting season and they don't seem skid dish as soon as season opens they bolt. As the season goes I see tons of turkey's and squirrels but once deer season is over and I enter the woods for squirrels the deer and turkey's show up. Then in spring no turkeys but find deer and squirrels. Think they have iPhones are something.

My father in laws ranch has a doe that has been around for a few years. We went tubing two summers ago and she walked down the river with us for a while. SHell disappear for a while, and then show up again, hopefully the image works.

As neat as it is to see deer and other animals up close, I would be a bit cautious. Once they lose their fear of humans they can get pretty feisty! With black bears, the one bear you don't want to fool with is one that has been fed by people. And I have seen videos of "tame" deer getting up on their hind legs and burying a hoof into a guys chest.

I have seen older deer walk over (In the mountains) and get close to kidds to get a better look. I guess they never saw small kidds before.

Well the little doe isn't walking with us any longer but seems to be along the trail at some point every time we are out and lets us get as close as 5 feet from her.
Pup is behaving well also.

:D Al

Enjoy the interaction with her. Darn cute pup also!

I used to watch deer stand and watch loggers logging with a big noisy machine,and watch my cousin bush hog with the tractor.I guess they know what's a danger to them and what's not.

I'm now in the market for a skidder to replace my ATV.
Figuring out how to mount a Lead Sled in a turret on the hood.

When we dropped trees late in the year, the deer would be hanging around before we left at the end of the day. There were always tops laying around that we had not chipped yet. Good deer browse. When you get an ice storm and it breaks the tops out of trees there are deer tracks all around it the next day.

Deer around the hose is a every day common thing for us.



Doesn't matter the time of year or day for that matter. Kare took this picture while I was back in the woods hunting.




Yes the turkeys go thru pretty regular also cleaning up bugs.





:D Al

Is the deer in the top photo perhaps a doe that just had a fawn?

Most likely since the garden is just starting it's spring growth. late spring early summer.



Got a picture of that little doe yesterday will get it uploaded today I hope and post tomorrow. She seemed to really want to come closer and get her ears scratched like I was doing with the pup.

:D Al

I took her picture morning 4-30-14.
She is still shedding and seems to skinny to be going to have a fawn of her own this spring.



:D Al