{"id":35675,"date":"2015-12-08T05:40:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T12:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=35675"},"modified":"2015-12-08T07:12:57","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T14:12:57","slug":"a-tale-of-two-mule-deer-bucks-in-rut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/08\/a-tale-of-two-mule-deer-bucks-in-rut\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tale Of Two Mule Deer Bucks In Rut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month I photographed two Mule Deer bucks that showed decidedly different effects of the rut.<\/p>\n

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1\/2000, f\/6.3, ISO 400, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I found this handsome guy at Bear River MBR on November 13 as he escorted a single doe around the marshes (she’s just out of frame to the right). He seemed to be in prime condition with a beautiful coat, a nice spread of antlers and the classic swollen neck of a buck in rut.<\/p>\n

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1\/2500, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Four days later I photographed this buck on Antelope Island. He’s handsome too but he shows the apparent scars of war. Battles between competing bucks are intense this time of year and at first glance it appears that this guy may have been on the losing end of at least one of them.<\/p>\n

However, the more I look at my images of this buck the more I wonder if the “scars” were caused by something else. They seem too uniform in depth to have been caused by the sharp antlers of a competing buck during battle. All four of them seem to be places on his skin where there is no hair but the hide itself appears undamaged. Perhaps it’s a skin condition or something else I haven’t thought of. I just don’t know.<\/p>\n

I never did get a look at the\u00a0right side of this buck so I don’t know if there were any similar scars there. He simply crossed the road in front of him (just out of frame) and then he was gone.<\/p>\n

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As an afterthought I decided to include a heavily cropped version of the previous image to show more detail of the “wounds”.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Last month I photographed two Mule Deer bucks that showed decidedly different effects of the rut.<\/p>\n

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