RHH's photos with the keyword: deer

A White-tailed Deer, photographed along the Hidden Lake trail in Glacier National Park, Montana.

Decided to take a break from photos of Yellowstone and post some from around our home, this of a Blacktail Buck that has taken up residence in our back yard. He has been there several nights and more often during the day. We noticed an injury on his rear hindquarter and think he may have been hit by a car. It is hunting season but the wound does not appear to be the result of a gunshot. He seems otherwise okay. The Columbia Blacktail Deer is a small subspecies of Mule Deer and is very common in our area. This is the kind of deer we hit with our car some weeks ago.

This Blacktail Buck has often been in our back yard recently. He appears to have been slightly injured, perhaps by an automobile.

This Blacktail Buck has been often in our back yard recently. We noticed he had an injury on his left hindquarter and think he may have been hit by a car, though appears otherwise okay.

This Mule Deer (note the long ears) was photographed on a spring morning just outside of Yellowstone National Park as we drove into the park via the east entrance road.

This is a Columbia Black-tailed Deer, a small sub-species of Mule Deer, in our backyard. I've posted the photo because I have a story to tell. We had gone Saturday to visit our youngest son and his wife and their baby, the baby only a few weeks old. We had seen her at the time she was born and this was our second visit. They live in western Washington, in the town where we lived before my retirement. We had our handicapped son with us so that he could see his new niece as well. We drove home through the night Sunday and were within thirty miles of home at about 2:30 am when we hit a deer. I didn't even have time to swerve before hitting it and smashed the front of the car so badly that it wasn't drive-able. We had to call and get a wrecker to tow us home. We are thankful that no one (except the deer) was hurt. Things can be replaced. People can't. A State Trooper (policeman) stopped shortly after the accident and looked for the deer - wanted to make sure it wasn't in the road or lying wounded along the road, but couldn't find it. We've actually got quite a bit of the poor deer on the car - hair and blood and flesh, so I doubt it survived. Now we are waiting to find out whether or not the car is repairable. It was taken away to a repair shop this afternoon.

This is a female Columbia Black-tailed Deer, a subspecies of Mule Deer lying in our back yard where they often come to graze or sleep.

These are two Columbia Black-tailed Deer in the fields near our home. They are very common in our area and they eat everything, so that we are not able to have a garden or much in the way of flowers.

The Columbia Black-tailed Deer is a subspecies of Mule Deer, smaller than an ordinary Mule Deer and with a distinctive black tail. They are very common in our area and often come into our garden. This young buck along with three others not only browsed in our back garden but bedded down there for the night.

The Columbia Black-tailed Deer is a subspecies of Mule Deer, smaller than an ordinary Mule Deer and with a distinctive black tail. They are very common in our area and often come into our garden. This young buck along with three others not only browsed in our back garden but bedded down there for the night.

The Columbia Black-tailed Deer is a subspecies of Mule Deer, smaller than an ordinary Mule Deer and with a distinctive black tail. They are very common in our area and often come into our garden. This young buck along with three others not only browsed in our back garden but bedded down there for the night. Nor did they move when we came out on the back deck to take photos. They are beautiful but pests as well since they eat everything. In fact, the only way to have a garden in our area is to surround it with a six foot fence and we would rather be able to see the fields and forest around our home.

The Columbia Blacktail Deer is a subspecies of Mule Deer, smaller than an ordinary Mulie and smaller, too, than a Whitetail Deer. It is the only deer west of the Cascades. There are so many of them where we live that they become pests. This photo was taken near Anacortes, Washington, in Washington Park.

This was taken in the area of Sinlahekin, a rather remote part of north-central Washington in the eastern foothills of the Cascades. I didn't have a more powerful lens on my camera when this was taken, but liked the shot, especially the exposure and the way the deer stood out against the background.

Very common around these parts, these deer often become pests. The Columbia Black-tailed Deer is considered a subspecies of the Mule Deer. This deer was photographed in Washington Park on Fidalgo Island.

This is another photo of my wife's, taken on Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park. The deer is a Columbian Black-tailed deer, Odocoileus hemionus.

This is a Columbian Black-tailed Deer, Odocoileus hemionus columbianus, a subspecies of the Mule Deer that is found from California up into British Columbia. It is smaller than its cousin, the White-tailed Deer. This young buck was photographed on Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park by my wife. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-olympics-first-day.html

We were hiking the trail at the end of Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park when this beautiful animal wandered into the area. As is obvious from the picture our day in the Olympics was a rather misty, cloudy day, though we had only a few sprinkles of rain. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2011/09/olympic-nat...

I've not posted a picture since last week Thursday and this is the reason. Two friends and I went backpacking in the North Cascades Friday and Saturday. I offered and they won the trip (all equipment and food provided and all expenses paid) at a fund-raiser earlier in the year and we were finally able to go this past week, taking advantage of the spectacularly beautiful weather we've been having. We hiked Cascade Pass and Sahale Arm, the most scenic and beautiful hike in the North Cascades, in my opinion. We hiked in four miles over the pass to Pelton Basin (our camp was in the trees on the left of the picture). The trail climbs 1800 feet through 34 switchbacks over those four miles and then drops about 400 feet to the camp. We arrived and set up camp around noon and then hiked back up to the pass and up Sahale Arm to Sahale Peak and Glacier, gaining another 2700 feet in elevation over two and half miles. There is a camp at 7700 feet at the foot of Sahale Glacier, the highest camp in the Cascades, but this was their first time backpacking and we were not sure that any of us could make it with packs to that camp. We did not get back to camp until late and after our evening meal and a good night's sleep and some time for relaxation the next morning, hiked out again on Saturday afternoon. We had great weather, awesome scenery, saw lots of wildlife and arrived home tired and satisfied. One of the high points of the trip was the fact that the wild blueberries and huckleberries were ripe. Another high point was all the wildlife, black bears, deer, marmots, pikas, grouse. The bears were out in full force and we had eight sightings of bears including several cubs and had to be careful in places on the trail. We had one large bear that was on the hillside across from the camp the whole time we were there, but he was busy feeding on the berries and did not bother us at all. We heard something come snuffling through the camp after we had gone to sleep, but could not tell if it was a bear. All our food and personal items were away from camp and out of reach of the bears, and whatever it was that came through did not bother us. The camp was as comfortable as a backcountry camp can be and in spite of the intrusion we all slept soundly. The two peaks shown in the picture are Pelton Peak and Magic Mountain, and the basin, the trail following it, goes another thirty miles to the old town of Stehekin and Lake Chelan, a hike I would very much like to do some day. My wife was unable to come along, but after seeing the pictures will probably be the reason why we do make this hike again. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2012/09/cascade-pas...