DEER BLACK TAIL MULE DEER
OF ARIZONA
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On 03-06-06
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Wanting to get out of the extremely dry and polluted air of the Phoenix area
I headed north toward the Grand Canyon's South Rim and the COCONINO PLATEAU.
I don't know which is worse, the polluted Phoenix air; or all of the tourist at the South Rim of the Canyon :-)).
Therefore on this trip I decided to spend time driving the dirt roads in the forest just south of the
Canyon's South Rim and just South of Tusayan a few miles off State route 64 and then West on road 306.
I was told to check out the TANKS. HUMM, tanks,
I started looking for metal tanks with water in them. I didn't know if they
meant big tall round metal tanks or low open top tanks with water in them.
Much to my surprise neither of the above tanks were correct.
I soon found out that a tank up here is no more than a big scraped out hole in the ground
to hold run-off water from the rains and snow melt.
I guess a tank could be anything that held something, thus qualifying a large
depression in the ground no matter how it got there as a TANK.
Many of the tanks were dry, parched, cracked dirt, and no water.
This also meant no wild life would be coming to drink so I kept on driving.
Some of the tanks were numbered and some named as you will see.
After several hours of being driven around with by my friend Don we came across this tank
with a smidgen of damp mud in the bottom of the hole, well, maybe just a bit more than a smidgen.
Inasmuch as there was no water any where else we started to see birds immediately coming in to drink.
Get out those cameras and let's start taking photos I said as I jumped out of Don's vehicle almost before it had stopped.
Inasmuch as there no water any where else we started to see birds immediately coming in to drink.
And this is what it called
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Next,
here come the
DEER
Mule Deer or Black-tailed Deer
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What, only one deer.
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I thought there were more Deer out there.
It sees something, I had better take a good look all around.
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They sure are cautious.
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I sure didn't see all of these coming in.
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After waiting a bit the sun came out and now I can get better photos.
Come on down and drink.
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They didn't like the area right across from me but instead chose the extreme north end of the mud hole.
Mud hole, yes, the water was so muddy you could almost chew it.
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Come on, before there ain't no more to drink.
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I thought deer like horses sucked up the water.
Look at the deer on the left, you see its tongue lapping up the water.
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Should I go bac or not, that is the question :-))
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Now thisheard just went on by and did not stop to drink.
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They just had to keep looking back.
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After the Deer had left, or at least I thought they had,
I went for a walk out in the timber and found this Deer taking a siesta.
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As soon as I clicked the camera's shutter it raised its head up but never tried to get up and run off.
I left it alone and never got closer than 50 feet.
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