{"id":418,"date":"2008-08-13T07:53:41","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T13:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=418"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:00:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:00:48","slug":"bucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2008\/08\/bucky\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my way out to get the mail, I noticed this guy and his friend out the window.  The first shots are through the window and I didn&#8217;t have time to try for a bokeh shot.  This young buck has been around a bit, but I mostly see does so fun to see this guy.  In a fit of cleverness I decided to call him &#8220;Bucky&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>He obligingly looked right at me &#8211; tree shadows, and general deer coloring versus woods coloring &#8211; natural camouflage&#8230; sometimes they are standing very still and I walk nearly up to them or get surprised to suddenly see a small herd in the yard.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s 8 points on that beautiful set of antlers!  I am going to have a talk with him about staying in my yard during hunting season.  I have posted &#8220;No hunting&#8221; as does my neighbor &#8211; he is too visible with that &#8220;rack&#8221; and although locals hunt for meat, there are those who hunt for trophies &#8211; would hate for Bucky to be that.  I wouldn&#8217;t mind finding the shed of antlers, though!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug08\/BuckA450478.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"450\" style=\"width: 478px; height: 450px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug08\/BuckandFriend500375.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"375\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 375px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug08\/Buck500375.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"375\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 375px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug08\/Buck400594.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"594\" style=\"width: 400px; height: 594px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug08\/Buck500471.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"471\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 471px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my way out to get the mail, I noticed this guy and his friend out the window. The first shots are through the window and I didn&#8217;t have time to try for a bokeh shot. This young buck has been around a bit, but I mostly see does so fun to see this guy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-montana","category-nature","category-photos"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22051,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/22051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}