Posing for a Holy Card

As my pal Smokey Joe would say - posing for a holy card.

Nice composition from a trail camera...

Flat Top

Field identification of buck fawns is best accomplished by looking carefully at their heads.  The top of the head directly between the ears in particular.  It should appear flat - unlike the domed head of a girl fawn or doe.  The reason is that male fawns have nubbins (or knobs) that will eventually grown into antlers next year which makes their heads appear flatter.

In this picture - featuring twin buck fawns - you can actually see the nubs above and behind each eye and before the ear.

If you want to go serious on promoting an optimal age/sex ratio and trophy antlered deer it may be sensible to target does and let the little bucks walk.  Of course, if you need to control the herd size - brown is down.

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Nubbin Buck

Trail camera photo of a new recruit this year.  A curious nubbin buck...


 

Doe and Fawn

In keeping with all of the crap ton of whitetails around here some pictures from a trail camera in a different location.  It's a doe and her fawn.

I'd be willing to bet that this photo taken at an earlier date is this little guy.  A button buck - also known as a nubbin buck.  You can see the antler buds showing prominently on his brow, 

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Deer Aplenty

IR (infrared) photo of a couple of deer.

The deer on the left (domed head) is a girl deer - a doe.

The deer on the right (with the flat top) is a boy deer - a nubbin buck.

Brother and sister maybe?

There sure a pile of deer on the landscape.

 

Little Buck

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If you look closely at this deer you can tell it's a boy.  A boy fawn to be exact.

His head is flat on top.  It looks flat because he got tiny antler nubs growing just inside his ears.  That's why a boy fawn is sometimes referred-to as a 'nubbin buck'.  

Does have a domed head.  

Next year he should be sporting antlers.

Nubbin Buck

Probably 6 to 9 months in age - this male fawn is sporting his antler buttons.  

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Nice, healthy-looking deer.