Keeping an eye on the deer

This was often one of the first things to do on the morning list.

This was as close as they came for camera advantage, although they run across our back bank quite often.


Doug and Jonas started noticing a herd of deer on the mountain behind us and started to track them from day to day. They moved the telescope to the kitchen nook window and their it has stayed so they can keep checking on them. They spotted several large bucks in the herd and got pretty excited. They even twice spotted a small herd of elk of about thirteen elk, with at least two bulls. The deer at times could gather to a total of about 50. It was really quite fun to find and watch them, it has been a hard winter for them and the state just reduced the deer tags for the season by 1000 fewer.