Antlers

In December the trail camera at this location captured a photo of a deer missing half of his rack.  I thought that was unusual as it is typical for male deer around here to retain their antlers well into February.  At the time I hypothesized that the buck might have been stressed and thus was shedding his antlers earlier than usual.

The last batch of trail camera photos confirmed that typical pattern.  Three distinctive antlered deer all sporting their headgear.

Here's a picture taken exactly two weeks ago today by that same camera.

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