I wondered why my bamboo canes were always on the floor in the morning. What creature would do this?......
I thought you might like to see this. The young buck is so close to the camera that you can see the velvet on his antlers.
"When you see deer with fuzzy antlers, you are seeing a deer in velvet. That velvet provides nutrition and growth to deer antlers. This special tissue is a type of skin, loaded with blood vessels and nerves, that regenerates every year. Because deer shed their antlers annually, they need dense and rapid growth of their antlers to occur every year. Antlers are important in distinguishing the strongest and most viable bucks, who will end up mating and passing on their genes."
It is definitely Spring in Rafferty's Field. Caught on camera, a very pregnant deer and her mate, our local fox and a nervous rabbit! This was all within 12hrs.
This is how much Rafferty likes his field!