Pinto deer

[Okanagan]

One afternoon last week this doe and three others were feeding a mile or so from our house.  The other deer were normal color.  Blacktail deer. Not sure if pinto or piebald is the best name for this color scheme!

Two years ago a normal colored doe in this same field had twin fawns that were both pinto.  We saw them a few times, then last Fall we saw a pinto doe lying in this field with a  fork horn buck standing beside her.  I'm pretty sure this doe last week is one of the fawns from two years ago , and is probably the same doe we saw last Fall.

There is quite a bit of white genetics in the deer of this county, and over the years we've seen several with varied combos of white/brown/black.  100 miles or so from here, up along the Canadian border near Sumas, WA one year there was an all white doe we saw a number of times.  She was totally white but not an albino.

Zoomed in with too much maginification for my thyroid shaky hands to hold the phone steady.

[remrogers]

Was headed out, some twenty years back, to a swimming pool installation, south of Portland, Oregon, on the west side of the Willamette River. Drove around a curve and saw what I took to be someone's goat that had gotten out. Was a piebald deer with three or four regular colored blacktail deer. They all quickly faded into the woods. Only one I have ever seen.

[FinsnFur]

That would be a pretty cool site

[Okanagan]

Was headed out, some twenty years back, to a swimming pool installation, south of Portland, Oregon, on the west side of the Willamette River. Drove around a curve and saw what I took to be someone's goat that had gotten out. Was a piebald deer with three or four regular colored blacktail deer. They all quickly faded into the woods. Only one I have ever seen.

I never saw a piebald deer till I was about 40 years old, and then I started coming to this area where they are more common.  It's kinda like the black coyotes: I've never seen a totally black but a few years ago a fellow from the southeast posted here that he had killed four of them and had pictures of several.

[nastygunz]

There is a population of piebald crows down around the Concord New Hampshire area. I even saw one that was almost pure white.

[Okanagan]

Saw the same piebald doe in the same field last evening.  Some tourists had stopped and were taking pictures of it.  (What does that make me?) 



It kept its head down, feeding aggressively, and I missed getting a pic when its head was up out of the long grass.  It ignored me and any sounds I made to get it to perk up its head, but it fed into nearby cover as quickly as it could without running.  I suspect that it feels pestered by people taking picture of it

I plan to check on it when every few days to see what color of fawn it has, which is due very soon. That's assuming it is pregnant.