Scott, Our local weekly newspaper had a photo of the deer from the 'deer attack' here in Love County on the front page of the November 27, 2009, edition. It was a 6-point 122-lb. buck. Our local paper, The Marietta Monitor, is very small and doesn't have a website or I'd link it so y'all could see that deer. In that photo, he's standing near the front door of the house. I know a few more details now, including the fact that the deer followed the woman into the garage and, as her husband tried to get the deer off of her, one of its' antlers became entangled in the man's belt and that is why the deer dragged the man down the driveway. Even after the man was able to separate the antler from his belt, the deer followed the couple back to the garage where they tried to fight it off with a sledge hammer and some tree pruning loppers. They are an older couple (I know this because they've been married 51 years) and I am sort of amazed that all they suffered was lacerations and bruising. It wouldn't have surprised me if they'd had broken a hip or pelvis when it knocked them to the ground. Our undersheriff, who eventually arrived on-scene and later shot the deer when it returned to the house and charged at him, said there was so much blood outside the garage that he figured someone had to be dead. He had the best quote in the newspaper article when he said "I have hunted deer, but I have never been hunted by one". Dawn

Thanks! I seldom use a tripod, but since I was in the car, I just balanced the Canon 400mm lens against the window. My Canon EOS 40D needs strong light from behind and to be close to work well, so I was glad the Buffleheads came as close as they did..about 40 feet away while fighting. As to why they were fighting, Buffleheads are monogamous, at least for a few years at a time, so apparently the newcomer male was defending his mate of choice that year. Perhaps she'd not yet made up her own mind because she kept approaching the single male, bobbing her head, and he'd bob back. Whenever he noticed this the first male would attack and drive the single male away, even though the single male kept trying to continue his foraging dives between attacks. These sea ducks are among the last to migrate to their breeding grounds in Canada, where they use Northern Flicker and Pileated Woodpecker holes by small lakes (link to Bufflehead pdf files http://seaduckjv.org/infoseries/buff_sppfactsheet.pdf ) For the Wood Ducks, I crawled into an old slab wood lean-to blind and balanced the lens against a cross bar. They are very jittery and I've not been able to sneak up on them since

Hi Rachel, You got amazing pictures! The warblers pictures are really great but I am also impress by that of the Red-shouldered Hawk in action. Wow! Congratulations! Luc

Beautiful as usual. And such a beautiful area to photograph. I'm glad you mentioned the wheep wheep of the GCF, I realized that was what I was hearing yesterday but couldn't place! Darn, I knew they come to our woods but I didn't think of them. Thanks for the photos.