I Can Name That Tune in 3 Notes - “Majestic”

I keep forwarding these images to friends in my phone either via picture message or on discord. The repetitive daily arrivals at both sunrise and sunset of these creatures feeding in the yard at our current stay, as well as neighboring yards, is a common occurrence here in Nashville—nothing surprising to the locals. A city boy like myself, however, I’ve never seen a buck in the wild—until now.

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That was the first buck I saw. We hadn’t even unpacked our bags yet at this stay. We heard him crushing through the leaves and tree branches as he made his way through the forest less than 30 yards away from us. I didn’t know wtf or was! My first assumption: ’A bull, it’s a wild bull!—mayday, mayday!’ All I saw were those horns. He stared at me long enough to snap that cover image before proceeding to scrape his antlers up and down a tree.

Now it’s daily—once at sunrise and then again at dusk. We’ve been here going on one week now and the same two males are in the yard like clockwork.

I snapped the above image yesterday, that was the first time I saw both males together. The females (“do’s” <— city boy learned a new word) are a lot less timid and a lot more curious than the males.

“White tail” (city boy learned two new words). I’m told there’s a variety of deer in the wild, these particular one’s are called “white tails.” It didn’t take long for the females to get comfortable and, next thing I know, out come the Bambi’s (already knew that one).

I just snapped the following image this a.m. I think it’s safe to say they’re comfortable with the current pair of temporary tenants at this stay.

I snapped several more but I think you get the picture. These creatures are gorgeous, ”majestic” is the first word that came to mind. Our host, however, her description of these creatures is ”A nuisance mmkay!”

She said (in her warm and charming southern-bell drawl) “they’s a nuisance, mmkay. I ain’t kid’n ya’all, it ain’t ‘if’ it’s ‘when’ mmkay. Now if’n ya’all know any bow hunters, ya’all just gawn’n give’em my address now ya’herrr.”

There’s rabbits out there around the same time feeding in the yard. They’re a lot more timid than the deer as you can imagine—they’re pretty much on every prey’s menu. I managed to capture one of them.

And this next one won’t be surprising to most of you tuned into this but it posed long enough for me snap a shot. The thing was huge—as big around as a coffee mug.

Final image—although some of you tuned in may see this next dude as a totally different kind of creature, he’s not. He’s actually a real cool guy, DJ Klever, we ran into him the other night in Nashville—he DJ’s for Yelawolf.

And that stunning blondie I managed to talk into posing alongside him is the same stunning blondie solely responsible for making me The Luckiest Guy I Know.

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