White Tailed Deer in the snow at Cades Cove

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Deer in the snow at Cades Cove one cold March day

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Deer in Cades Cove

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Cades Cove White Tailed Buck with antlers mostly gone.

These are the last photographs of this buck. His antlers were so interesting to me.

You can check out antler information at http://www.buckmasters.com/bm/Resources/Articles/tabid/135/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1172/Antler-Growth-and-Formations.aspx

As I have said before, the deer at Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park are not afraid of people. Just not allowed to touch them.

I actually got between the buck and doe,

because I did not know the buck was behind me to begin with.

From the last photograph you can see how well they blend with the environment around them, which makes it hard to see them sometimes.

White Tailed Deer in Cades Cove

Like a polite deer should, she closed her mouth for the 2nd photo.

The last 2 are a different deer, and she actally turned around for me.

These were very close too. Just another indication of the tameness of the deer in Cades Cove. Also, you can see we got a tease of a snow. Nothing to write home about.

Deer in Cades Cove next to Methodist Church

Deer in Cades Cove early morning

A man from Germany had just asked me about deer in the area when these deer came out of the woods to the right of the field we had been photographing. These were taken a short distance into Cades Cove in the Smokies this past Tuesday morning. Labor Day I photographed a Sandhill Crane in this same field. According to the reference books I checked the Sandhill should not have been in Cades Cove. Several birding bloggers Ecobirder and Lynne both verified from the photograph it was indeed a Sandhill Crane and left some good information about the Sandhill on that post.

Fawn and Mama in Cades Cove

A Mother Deer and her Fawn. We just moseyed along together until they reached the edge of the woods and then I turned back. These photographs are in the order taken.