The 2024 Firearm Deer Season began this morning on the Leelanau Peninsula and runs through November 30th.
Be sure to wear orange if you are out and about in or near the woods & remember that hunting IS allowed in much of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore!!
Stacy shared this closeup of a young male Whitetailed deer in velvet back in 2009. She explains that “Antler growth begins normally in April to early May. The new antlers are tender and velvet covered, with the velvet shed in early September on almost all bucks. An occasional male, possible one-half of one percent, does not shed the velvet at all.”
See more in her Spring/Summer 2013 gallery on Flickr & have a great weekend.
