For two hours yesterday afternoon I watched a 100# doe and her 75# button buck feed on corn and peas. Nice! His "head gear" was about 1 inch and still below the hairline. A "nubbin" buck. Nothing unusual about them. Standard brown, white, and an outline of black on the face and tail coloration for southern white tailed deer.
Near the end of the day a single shorter yearling deer with impressively thick legs and hind quarters of "blond" color characteristics joined the other two. Not albino, just very much distinctively lighter in color than the standard brown. I focused my 10X binoculars on its head to determine if it was a B-buck, but no luck. It's forehead is flatter and its face shorter than a yearling doe but there are no tell-tale button markings of a buck.
If it's a buck and it matures the way I hope it does, I would very much like its grown-up characteristics in my neighborhood deer herd. I tried to watch when it flipped its tail for evidence of sex, but no luck. Next time I will try to get photos.
