Oh deer
Look carefully and you can see there's a white deer and a brown deer together in this shot. It's hard to see the brown one! I liked this shot because it shows one of the abandoned roads in the Seneca Army Depot - there's hundreds of miles of roads in this place - and a herd of white deer, protected by a large chain-link fence.
On an decommissioned army depot near us, there's a herd of white white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus). They're not albino, but rather an uncommon mutation that makes them white. The county wants to develop the land, but a group of local citizens has started a campaign to save the deer and turn the area into a conservation park.
The Depot is closed to the public, but it's not unusual to see the white deer through the chain-link fence. Yesterday morning we went on a tour offered by the citizens' group (Seneca White Deer, Inc.) and got to see them up close from a schoolbus.
More to come!
Oh deer
Look carefully and you can see there's a white deer and a brown deer together in this shot. It's hard to see the brown one! I liked this shot because it shows one of the abandoned roads in the Seneca Army Depot - there's hundreds of miles of roads in this place - and a herd of white deer, protected by a large chain-link fence.
On an decommissioned army depot near us, there's a herd of white white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus). They're not albino, but rather an uncommon mutation that makes them white. The county wants to develop the land, but a group of local citizens has started a campaign to save the deer and turn the area into a conservation park.
The Depot is closed to the public, but it's not unusual to see the white deer through the chain-link fence. Yesterday morning we went on a tour offered by the citizens' group (Seneca White Deer, Inc.) and got to see them up close from a schoolbus.
More to come!