{"id":7697,"date":"2020-09-10T18:15:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T23:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/?p=7697"},"modified":"2020-09-10T18:15:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T23:15:35","slug":"early-fall-deer-wild-turkey-in-south-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/2020\/09\/10\/early-fall-deer-wild-turkey-in-south-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Fall Deer & Wild Turkey in south Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I began photographing a few white-tailed deer and wild turkey in late August. Fawns were dropping in July and getting pretty active by August. Meanwhile, the big bucks finished growing new antlers. Late summer is always a magic time when I can capture images of fawns and large bucks at the same time and location. It’s also that time of year when some turkey hens still have young poults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are some photographs from recent weeks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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White-tailed Deer, buck eating huisache leaves, s. Texas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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White-tailed Deer, buck in velvet running through meadow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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White-tailed Deer, doe and fawn feeding at sunrise, s. Texas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cottontail Rabbit playing with fawn White-tailed Deer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the image above, a cottontail rabbit jumps from the grass next to fawn. The rabbits seemed to play tag for a half hour or more with the little deer. On several occasions, they ran between its legs but the grass was too high for me to get a good shot<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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White-tailed Deer, fawn out for her morning run.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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White-tailed Deer, fawn watching large buck in velvet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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White-tailed Deer, large bucks in velvet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wild Turkey, hen and poult feeding in meadow, s. Texas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wild Turkey, poult snapping at mosquitos.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Bucks will be shedding velvet from their antlers for the next two-three weeks and I hope to capture nice shots of that. Maybe I can find some fresh fall migrant birds and autumn wildflowers, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Larry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I began photographing a few white-tailed deer and wild turkey in late August. Fawns were dropping in July and getting pretty active by August. Meanwhile, the big bucks finished growing new antlers. Late summer is always a magic time when I can capture images of fawns and large bucks at the same time and location. … Continue reading Early Fall Deer & Wild Turkey in south Texas<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7707,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697\/revisions\/7707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryditto.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}