Too Close to Home

Click on the image above to enlarge it and look closely at the bottom center of the photo directly below the branch reaching over the trail.

That branch is called a 'licking branch' and the dark blotch (bottom center) is an active deer scrape.  Male deer pee on their tarsal glands and make these scrapes as a mechanism to mark their territory. 

What buck deer has the temerity to mark and claim as part of his domain the corner of the back yard this close to our residence?

Sheesh.