{"id":29545,"date":"2021-07-27T11:43:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T15:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=29545"},"modified":"2021-07-27T11:43:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T15:43:09","slug":"new-york-the-ungulates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2021\/07\/new-york-the-ungulates\/","title":{"rendered":"New York: The ungulates"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Considering how often and in how many places we saw the species, I’m a little surprised that I don’t have more photos, but then I remember the circumstances most times. At the Gatsby mansion where we stayed in New York, the property was absolutely loaded with white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus<\/em>,) but they remained a bit spooky and tended not to stick around when spotted (Ha!<\/em> ‘Spotted.’ Didn’t expect that<\/em> one, did you?) In fact, the vast majority of times we sighted them, like above, while on the long and remote driveway that led to the place, which meant I was driving and the long lens wasn’t even attached – the camera was<\/em> within reach most times, because I’ve learned a little over the years, but it would mean changing lenses, opening the door slightly, and leaning out to have a clear view;<\/strong> don’t ever try shooting through the windshield. This one was in good light and pausing to evaluate the curious blue threat approaching slowly up the drive, so I snagged a few frames, including here as it flicked its tail in consideration of fleeing.<\/p>\n

As I look at this, I realize these were all the same day, but some four hours later, after snagging some shots of a really red sunset<\/a>, we looked out along the big fields of the property and discovered a young buck, antlers still in velvet as they developed, stalking within the growing fog.<\/p>\n

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The light was falling rapidly and I was pushing the absolute limits of handholding a 600mm lens and getting reasonably clear frames, large aperture, boosted ISO, and image stabilization notwithstanding – there are a lot of discards among these.<\/p>\n

It moved on, not fully trusting me, but after a handful of paces, it stopped again to browse in an area that showed the fog better.<\/p>\n

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The fog was courtesy of a fierce storm a day earlier (we’re getting to that,) which left the grounds oversaturated and broke loose about half of a walnut tree worth of limbs to deposit in the big lawn, which The Girlfriend decided to start gathering up after the deer wandered off;<\/strong> naturally I had to join in. I can’t recommend tackling something like this in muggy conditions, with a loaded camera bag and large lens case that both want to swing forward every<\/em> time you stoop down – we were soaked in sweat and humidity within minutes, but the lawn looked much better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Considering how often and in how many places we saw the species, I’m a little surprised that I don’t have more photos, but then I remember the circumstances most times. At the Gatsby mansion where we stayed in New York, the property was absolutely loaded with white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus,) but they remained a bit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[3751,43,2194,5068,239,238],"class_list":["post-29545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-central-new-york","tag-finger-lakes","tag-fog","tag-gatsby-mansion","tag-odocoileus-virginianus","tag-white-tailed-deer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}