RHH's photos with the keyword: columbia blacktail

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 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.