My friend, Doug Thorburn, sent me pictures he took of two white-tailed bucks grazing in a meadow near the lakeshore. From those pictures, I learned two things:
• Antlers of different bucks grow at different rates;
• Deer like to eat daisies.
This buck’s antlers are barely started.
This buck’s antlers are well underway. Both antlers are still in velvet.
Doug Thorburn’s pictures are used with permission.
These two bucks also confirmed a common observation of mine…bigger, older bucks are much more wary of strange intruders, as compared with their younger compatriots.