Doe A Deer
by Kathy White
Title
Doe A Deer
Artist
Kathy White
Medium
Photograph - Photography--greeting Cards Or Notes Are Cheaper By The Dozen!
Description
"Doe A Deer" is a photograph I took near a lake, in a clearing, of a doe, motionless as if she were just standing and posing for me. We watched each other for a few minutes as I took several shots of her with my camera. She was curious about me and I was in awe of how beautiful she was.
A doe is the female of the deer, antelope, goat, rabbit, and certain other animals. In this case, we have a female white tailed deer. The white-tailed deer, also known as the Virginia deer or simply as the whitetail, is a medium-sized deer native to the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America as far south as Peru.
The deer's coat is a reddish-brown in the spring and summer and turns to a grey-brown throughout the fall and winter. The deer can be recognized by the characteristic white underside to its tail, which it shows as a signal of alarm by raising the tail during escape, which she eventually did. White hair is found inside the ears, under the tail, inside the legs, on the belly, and around the eyes, nose, and chin.
The whitetail is outstanding in many ways. They are incredibly fast and agile, and able to make very high leaps, even from a standstill. Their sense of smell is perhaps their best defense, and it's a good one. Many hunters have spent lots of cash trying to beat a whitetail deer's nose, with limited success. Their eyesight isn't great, but they can spot movement quite easily. Whitetails are good swimmers, and have been known to take to the water without hesitation, especially when pursued.
The female (doe) in North America usually weighs from 40 to 90 kg (88 to 200 lb).
Whitetail deer eat large varieties of food, commonly eating legumes and foraging on other plants, including shoots, leaves, cacti, and grasses. They also eat acorns, fruit, and corn. Their special stomach allows them to eat some things that humans cannot, such as mushrooms and poison ivy. Their diet varies by season according to availability of food sources. They will also eat hay, grass, white clover, and other food that they can find in a farmyard. Though almost entirely herbivorous, white-tailed deer have been known to opportunistically feed on nesting songbirds, field mice, and birds trapped in Mist nets.
Wolves, cougars, American alligators, and (in the tropics) jaguars are the more effective natural predators of white-tailed deer. Occasionally, both Golden and Bald Eagles may capture deer fawns with their talons.
Fawns are weaned after 8 to 10 weeks. Males will leave their mothers after a year and females leave after two.
In areas where they are heavily hunted by humans, deer run almost immediately away from people and are quite wary even where not heavily hunted. But they do have a natural curiosity for humans. Hunters often watch deer rather than shooting them, and it is certainly an awesome experience just to see deer in the wild, and watch them undetected. I tell my husband all the time that he may go deer hunting with his gun, but I hunt them with my camera.
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June 13th, 2013
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Comments (12)
Kathy White
Featured in the group Our Four Legged Friends by administrator Mariola Bitner. Thank you so much!!
Kathy White
Featured in the group Calling All Artist by administrator Yolanda Baker. I appreciate the feature Yolanda!
Kathy White
Thank you Yolanda! I work hard on my descriptions! lol Thank you for the vote and fave too!
Kathy White
Featured in the group Wildlife by the administrator of the group, Mariola Bitner. I appreciate the feature Mariola!
Randy Rosenberger
Dear WFS group member, It is with the utmost respect and honor for your fine art works, that you are being FEATURED in the Wisconsin Flowers and Scenery group, on our HOMEPAGE! Your work is of the quality of a fine artist, and we are happy to have you as a member of our family of friends and fine artists here in the WFS group. Congratulations on your recent FEATURE of your fine art within our group! Forever, Elvis
Kathy White replied:
Thank you so much Randy Rosenberger for the feature! I am glad you are feeling better!