Old Buck
Life Member
One thing I love about being outdoors is seeing things I've never seen before.
Tuesday I was at Springbrook giving a slide show on bowhunting Africa to the Iowa DNR Fisheries staff. That was the day with all the snow. Afterwards I drove around the park looking for deer.
It seemed like I wasn't spotting nearly as many deer there as I usually do. I expected to see lots of them bedding out the storm. Finally I saw a white silhouette of a bedded doe near a downfall. Then I noticed about 6 more looking the same.
The snow was sticking to their hair so well that about the only things not white were their eyes and nose. Under the jaw and around the throat patch you could see a little brown hair with binoculars. Other than that they were all white.
It was really a strange sight to see all these 'white deer' just 50 yards off the road. At another location a different group was feeding in the snowstorm but they must have kept shaking the snow off because they looked perfectly normal.
The bad news, I actually went to Springbrook, in a snow storm, and didn't remember to take either my video or my 35mm! I've got great images, but they are all in my mind.
Old Buck
Tuesday I was at Springbrook giving a slide show on bowhunting Africa to the Iowa DNR Fisheries staff. That was the day with all the snow. Afterwards I drove around the park looking for deer.
It seemed like I wasn't spotting nearly as many deer there as I usually do. I expected to see lots of them bedding out the storm. Finally I saw a white silhouette of a bedded doe near a downfall. Then I noticed about 6 more looking the same.
The snow was sticking to their hair so well that about the only things not white were their eyes and nose. Under the jaw and around the throat patch you could see a little brown hair with binoculars. Other than that they were all white.
It was really a strange sight to see all these 'white deer' just 50 yards off the road. At another location a different group was feeding in the snowstorm but they must have kept shaking the snow off because they looked perfectly normal.
The bad news, I actually went to Springbrook, in a snow storm, and didn't remember to take either my video or my 35mm! I've got great images, but they are all in my mind.
Old Buck
