creekbend
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I caught a glimpse of one, several years ago. It reminded me of the Unicorn Legend.
SPOTTED: Very rare pair of Albino deer !!!
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dodge man
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A college professor shot one in my area several years ago. Its a no-no in Illinois to shoot an albino deer. He checked it in and they took it away and wrote him a ticket. The state had it stuffed and displayed it in different places. I saw it and it was a pretty pure albino. Its kind of funny, the deer couldn't have been 6 months old, even if it wasn't an albino, it wasn't worth shooting.
dmccarty
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The professor got off easy if all he got was a ticket.
I was talking to our UPS guy last year about the albino bucks. He said he shot an albino deer once but never again. After shooting the albino, his wife divorced him, he went bankrupt and lost the house. He says killing the albino brought him a world of bad luck. :confused3:
I do not intend to see if his theory is correct. Later,
Dan
OldMcDonald
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Dan, That might have been co-incidences strung together - but it might not!!
Just checked out your last years thread, very nice photos. There has frequently been an albino doe on Rannoch Moor in northern Scotland over a few centuries of time. My wife and I saw the then current one on our honeymoon in 1971. Only time I have ever seen one. I do not know if there is one at present.
Just checked out your last years thread, very nice photos. There has frequently been an albino doe on Rannoch Moor in northern Scotland over a few centuries of time. My wife and I saw the then current one on our honeymoon in 1971. Only time I have ever seen one. I do not know if there is one at present.
dmccarty
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I "hunted" those deer with my camera for months and never got the images I was after. Very frustrating. At the time Nikon had announced a new camera but it was taking MONTHS for them to meet demand. I waited a good 2-3 months to get my camera. Now my old camera was pretty danged good in low light. In fact it was magic compared to what film I used to use back in the film days. The new camera was even better in low light and by the time it arrived, the leaves had popped out on the trees, and it was very hard to see the deer. As a result, I never did get the images I wanted too but at least I have something of those two albino bucks.
I do hope the coyotes got the albinos and nobody shot them...
Later,
Dan
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OldMcDonald
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I thought somebody might have spotted my stupid mistake by now. The female of Red deer (as in my post above) is called a hind and not a doe. I was just watching my does (goats) before lunch and realised that I had posted doe instead of hind last night. Apologies for stupidity, my excuse being that my wife announced dinner was ready just as I began posting.
cqaigy2
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An honest mistake, blood flowing from brain to stomach. :laughing:
OldMcDonald
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cqaigy2, I like that.
Dinner is the highlight of my day. My wife and I have put up with each other since we crawled about half a mile over the bog on our bellies to get a cine film of that hind only to find the camera jammed. Neither of us is what you might call a "romantic" and we do not hold hands or call each other by silly names, just get on with life, but we both enjoy a proper meal every night with suitable wines for what we are eating, and several cheeses (7 different ones on the table tonight) to go with whatever Ports we are trying out - just two tonight, and nuts to finish when either a different Port or a Moscatel is called for. We peasants know how to enjoy ourselves.
Dinner is the highlight of my day. My wife and I have put up with each other since we crawled about half a mile over the bog on our bellies to get a cine film of that hind only to find the camera jammed. Neither of us is what you might call a "romantic" and we do not hold hands or call each other by silly names, just get on with life, but we both enjoy a proper meal every night with suitable wines for what we are eating, and several cheeses (7 different ones on the table tonight) to go with whatever Ports we are trying out - just two tonight, and nuts to finish when either a different Port or a Moscatel is called for. We peasants know how to enjoy ourselves.