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Albino Deer Herd
rgfixit:
I know it's not fishing, But I took these pics today at the Seneca Army Depot in New York.
These deer are a part of the captive albino herd within the depot fences. Over the years of being trapped inside the installation, the white strain has proliferated and now out numbers the normal color phase. The herd is estimated at about 200.
RG
howey1176:
Cool, I've never seen one.
They kind of look like goats. ;D
Cider:
Those are incredible pictures Bob! I have a similar experience that I can share here.
I live in a very rural town in NH and one morning two years ago I was out to feed my pheasants in the back yard which I was raising to train my dogs with.
It was a typical spring morning. Nice sunny crisp day. When I went to unlatch the door on my flight pen I felt like something was watching me. I looked up into the treeline and there was a big doe standing there not more than 30 feet away! Around here that is not a strange thing to have happen. We have deer come through the property daily.
I thought to myself that was cool but I was completely unprepared for what I saw next when she started moving on. She had a fawn with her that was "pie-bald"! It was completely white with the exception of it's head and cape which were the usual brown!
I saw that little deer nearly everday that spring. Later on after talking to my neighboor I found out that it had a twin that had died early on. Apparently, there was/is a 6 pt pie-bald buck in the neighboorhood that is fathering more of his kind.
The truly sad part about this story is that the little fawn I had been watching was shot on opening day in the fall for somebody's trophy wall. It weighed less than 35 lbs. :(
Being a deer hunter myself, I knew that would happen but deep down was hoping that people would let it go a season or two to at least make it good table fare too! Seemed like a waste to be taken so young... >:(
seaweed01:
RG,
I've saw them before when we used to go to the
commisary at the Depot. They are reall neat.
If I remember correctly from some article that I have
read they are not an albino, but a a true white
color phase of whitetail. I have a friend who lives
upstate that has two of the white bucks mounted that
he got there while stationed there. They are really
gourgeous.
Hollywood:
We pulled off the road once on the way to Corning for opening day of deer season to watch 3 white bucks with 2 regulars there. I believe they have a hunt there every year-a sport shop in Oswego had a number of white deer mounts from there.
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