This is something that many a deer hunter would love to have in front of them. 😉

This very large Mule Deer buck was standing on a slight rise to my east early in the morning. His massive frame and sizeable antlers made him quite easy to pick out of the landscape, even with the sunrise behind it. The shadowy form made for a pretty neat picture.

Mule Deer are quite common across the western half of North America and can be found everywhere from the mountains to the plains. This particular one was out and about on the prairie northeast of Denver, Colorado recently.

I happened across these two handsome fellows Friday at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge. In case you didn’t know, the refuge has just opened a greatly expanded auto tour that adds about nine miles to the drive. You really should go check it out if you live in the Denver area.

I was watching this young White-tailed Deer’s mom, not realizing that the little one was only 10 feet away. It had its head down in the tall grass, grazing, then it suddenly became aware of my presence and popped its head up. I think we both were a bit surprised. Taken at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge near Denver, Colorado.

These cool dudes seemed to know they were the big studs of the area and weren’t afraid to let themselves be seen. They were hanging out in one of the campgrounds in Rocky Mountain National Park and were quite content to people watch, unthreatened by all the humans around them.

Mule Deer are quite common across the western half of North America and can be found everywhere from the mountains to the plains. While these two bucks are clearly getting along fine right now, in another few weeks they will likely find themselves doing battle and trying to garner the attention of the area females.

I happened across this little one, its mom and its twin while hiking on Saturday afternoon. While mama was more than willing to pose for pictures, the young ones were far more cautious and opted to stay hidden most of the time. They proved to be quite adept and keeping themselves out of view but I did manage a few captures including this one when one of them was looking right at me and framed by the trees.

Mule Deer are quite common across the western half of North America and can be found everywhere from the mountains to the plains. This family opted for a high altitude residence at about 10,000 feet in Roosevelt National Forest, Colorado.

This handsome fellow was grazing along the road’s edge toward Maligne Lake on our recent visit up north. This was probably in our top three favorite areas of the park. So much scenery and wildlife that it took multiple trips to truly be able to take it all in.

A very, very cute find early one morning at Jasper National Park. This young one and its mom were out for a walk and it paused just long enough for me to snap a few pictures.

Unfortunately, looking at them afterwards, the images were very, very dark. I had not checked my camera settings which were left at the ones I use for taking pics of birds in flight. Ugh!

Thankfully I was to recover a decent image in post processing although it is much grainier than what it should be.

The Colorado Front Range was hit by a heck of a snowstorm over the past couple of days; Mother Nature’s way of reminding us exactly who is in control.

This mule deer and a lot of its friends had found a nice place under a tree to bed down that wasn’t covered in snow. That did not mean it was entirely dry as you can tell.

Good thing for it that wildlife is pretty well adapted for this type of thing plus, as is typical in Colorado, we’ll be right back to the 70s by the end of the week.