doubled
01-05-2009, 10:23 PM
This was an email I received and thought it would be good to pass on to the masses here.
On November 6, a relative, Donna Viereck, called to tell us that she was driving and had seen a buck in the distance with his head down. It wasn't moving, and although she honked the car horn repeatedly, he wouldn't raise his head.
She grabbed her binoculars and looked at him, and saw that the buck's horns were entangled with those of another one, which was dead. So she called us and asked if we wanted an adventure -- untangling the animals! Well, we went, pronto!!! I took my camera and we walked right up to them.
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t262/doubled66/tied1.jpg
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t262/doubled66/tied2.jpg
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t262/doubled66/tied3.jpg
They were tangled in an old fence line just east of a golf course, where some railroad tracks had been. The live buck was on the high side, and the dead buck on the slope. The other buck had been dead for 2 or 3 days, we estimated.
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t262/doubled66/tied4.jpg
Terry attempted to break a point off the dead buck's rack with his pliers, but couldn't.... He tried turning the dead buck's head but the other one just became more frightened and started backing up.
The live buck had the bigger rack - a 5 x 6. The dead buck was bigger bodied and looked to be an older deer. It had more "stickers" on its rack.
On November 6, a relative, Donna Viereck, called to tell us that she was driving and had seen a buck in the distance with his head down. It wasn't moving, and although she honked the car horn repeatedly, he wouldn't raise his head.
She grabbed her binoculars and looked at him, and saw that the buck's horns were entangled with those of another one, which was dead. So she called us and asked if we wanted an adventure -- untangling the animals! Well, we went, pronto!!! I took my camera and we walked right up to them.
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t262/doubled66/tied1.jpg
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t262/doubled66/tied2.jpg
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t262/doubled66/tied3.jpg
They were tangled in an old fence line just east of a golf course, where some railroad tracks had been. The live buck was on the high side, and the dead buck on the slope. The other buck had been dead for 2 or 3 days, we estimated.
http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t262/doubled66/tied4.jpg
Terry attempted to break a point off the dead buck's rack with his pliers, but couldn't.... He tried turning the dead buck's head but the other one just became more frightened and started backing up.
The live buck had the bigger rack - a 5 x 6. The dead buck was bigger bodied and looked to be an older deer. It had more "stickers" on its rack.