This young male deer (antlers) was walking alone in the field behind me around sunset. He was aware of my presence but did not scare away while I’ll snapped a few pictures with my camera and zoom lens. The deer population in the Caledon, Ontario area appears to remain fairly high. Be sure to keep an eye out at night when driving down some of the lesser traveled roads, I have had a number of deer jump out of the woods in front of my car.

I managed to sneak up on a small group of deer to get these pictures, they were caught off guard but did not spook immediately, I was still able to get snap a few pictures before they took off back into the woods. Pictures were taken in north-east Caledon, click on the images for larger pictures.

I apologize for the lack of Caledon blog updates but I have been away on vacation in Costa Rica and then came back to the December holiday rush. While in Costa Rica I happened to come across a White-tailed deer at Manual Antonio National Park. Many people assume that deer are only in North America but they are actually found in Mexico, Central America and in South America as far south as Peru and is actually the national animal of Honduras. This particular deer was very tame, we were able to walk up to him and even pet him in the wild, try doing that in Caledon… If you are interested in seeing some pictures from my trip to Costa Rica, click here to view the photo album. Otherwise now that it has snowed and looks pretty outside I will be back taking some Caledon area photos soon.

Here are a few new photos of some deer I recently took in the Caledon area. Maybe its just me looking a lot closer but it seems like there is more deer around this year compared to last year, well at least in my area. These deer were gracing the field of hay in my backyard, the hay is so tall now that it is often hard at times to see the deer walking through it. I also spotted a young fawn with its mother eating in roughly the same spot but unfornuately was unable to get a good picture. For more info on White-tailed deer, click here. Photos were taken with my Olympus 70-300mm zoom lens.

I took these pictures this past Monday morning fresh from the weekend thaw I caught this small herd of deer on outskirts of Bolton. If you are heading south this is the very last field before you hit bolton, the Albion-Bolton District Park is across from it. The deer were quite the attraction this particular morning, many people were either slowing down to look or stopping to watch for a moment and I wasn’t the only one snapping a few pictures. I took these photos with my trusty zoom lens (Olympus 70-300mm). Despite it being so close to the town of Bolton the deer do seem to frequent this field often, I have seen them here numerous times in the morning around 8-9am so you just need to keep your eye out for them.