Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: rutting season

We witnessed a really cool thing on a walk at Shannon Terrace, Fish Creek Park, a while ago. A Mule Deer buck, accompanied by a doe, came towards us and got pretty close - certainly close enough, knowing that it's rutting season! Then a huge buck arrived on the scene and approached the other two. Eventually, the smaller buck realized that the other male was bigger and more powerful and that he might as well leave the scene, seeing as he would be out of luck. My photo is of the lucky "winner", the larger buck, with the rather disinterested doe. I think this is the closest photo I've ever been able to get of a male. He's an impressive sight - just look at the size of his neck!

Saw this handsome Mule Deer buck at Shannon Terrace in Fish Creek Park on 18th November last year. Not the most photogenic background, seeing some of the houses that edge the top of this park that stretches right across the width of the city. The park just carries on down into the valley. We are SO lucky to have such an amazing urban park - likewise with Weaselhead.