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JOINT WINNER of the Winter Wonderland in British Columbia challenge in the Beautiful BC Group

2nd Place in the Birthday 2012 Surprise Challenge – Buck/Deer in the Featured For A Challenge Group

2nd Place in the Male & Female – Land Mammals Category Challenge in the Nature Photography Challenge Group

Featured in “Deer Me!!!” January 2011
Featured in “Sets of two” January 2011
Featured in “Canadiana” February 2011
Featured in “Beautiful BC” December 2011
Featured in “The World As We See It , or as we missed it” April 2012
Featured in “Featured For A Challenge” May 2012
Featured in “Nature Photography Challenge” May 2012

A buck Black-tailed Deer reaches up to feed on Arbutus leaves whilst a young doe looks up towards him longingly in anticipation.

Photographed in north Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada

Canon 40D
1/125 sec f8 ISO 400
70-200mm zoom lens @ 100mm