The past couple of days have been very foggy which makes it tough to photograph wildlife. This large Buck was chasing Does at the Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma.
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It sure looks like this Whitetail Buck is watching something in the sky on this foggy morning but he is actually “lip curling”. You can read about lip curling here: Large Oklahoma 8 Point Buck He is trying to get my scent because he couldn’t figure me out is what I’m guessing.
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You can see by the above photo that it can be very difficult to see the deer in the soybean fields at the Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma. I also got a glimpse of a Coyote in this same field.
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It is the pre-rut here in Oklahoma. If you look close at the second photo you will see that this buck is doing the “lip curl”. By flaring its nostrils and curling the upper lip. The buck’s chief objective here is to get the smell to make contact with an organ inside its mouth. This [...]
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I photographed this large 12 point Whitetail Buck yesterday and you can see that is not in velvet. I get excited when I can get close enough to photograph one of these large elusive bucks. While I was photographing this buck I took my eye off of it just for a couple of seconds and [...]
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I posted a photo yesterday of a 7 Point Buck Still In Velvet. I went out yesterday and noticed one buck (left buck in first photo) that appeared to be losing its velvet. When the antlers are growing, they are full of nerves and blood vessels and are covered with a hairy skin covering tissue [...]
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