I have never been much of a digital photographer, despite the fact that I have a pretty decent camera, and a selection of lenses. I much prefer shooting with film, and that is where I focus my efforts. Most of the digital shots that I have taken in the past couple of years, and posted here on my blog, were taken with my phone. In recent months I have made an effort to try to shoot a little more with my digital SLR. The image quality is so much better than the phone, and I have some decent longer lenses that work better for wildlife. So these past few days out at Nordegg, I actually shot a little.
Its been obvious over the years that the deer come around to my bird feeders. I thought they had been eating spilled bird seed, and that was true. But I watched a buck outside my window and realized that he was the one responsible for spilling the seeds. He would bang the bird feeder with his snout and get the seeds to spill to the ground, and then he ate them.
The deer are really hanging around a lot at this time of year. Partly its that hunting season is just coming to an end. I think the deer have figured out that it is safe to hang around in the subdivision, where hunting is not allowed. At one point I had a buck walk up to within about ten feet of me. I just kept talking to him, and he was a little skittish, but remained relatively calm. Sadly I didn't have the phone or the digital camera with me at that point,
On December 2nd I took a drive up to Abraham Lake. I thought that with the recent cold weather that the lake might be starting to freeze around the edges. That was not the case, and the lake was still completely open. I had my view camera along with me for the ride, but it was just a little too windy to bother attempting to set it up. Maybe next time.
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