A beautiful sight, a white deer

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I live in the suburbs of North Carolina, in a area that was once all farms. We've taken up much of the natural habitat, but there are still enough woods for some wildlife. This morning, driving into town I saw the most amazing sight. At the edge of some woods were two deer. One was the natural brown color, and one was completely white. An albino I suppose. I was dumbstruck and stopped my car dead in the middle of the road. They just walked calmly at the edge of the woods, just 100 feet from the road. What an amazing sight that was. All I could think of was that I didn't have a camera, not even thinking of the camera in my cell phone! I have no idea how common an albino whitetail is. Does anyone know?

It was just an amazing and humbling sight. Such beauty in the midst of suburban sprawl.

Steve
 
Piebalds (partly white) are more common. Completely white deer are more rare.

Glad you got to see one up close and in person.
 
Thats cool Steve. I've never seen one in the wild. How cool. I hear they taste more like chicken.
 
When I was a kid living in Detroit, there was a white deer that use to live on Belle Isle (a small island on the Detroit river now a State Park that was originally a trading place between Native Americans and Europeans) I use to go with a loaf of old bread in hopes of offering him a piece. He would only take it from you only after the rest of the deer have had a piece.
 
That is so cool! What a sight. I have never seen one.

There was a story a few years ago up in Sonoma county. Some guy out in the boonies came out onto his porch and spotted a white deer. Being a deer hunting addict, and not having any spiritual bent at all, he freaked out, ran inside and grabbed his deer rifle. The deer just stood there and he poached it.

Turns out it was some rare kind of deer that is naturally white, I think it is called an Ibyx deer (?). It had been living on a preserve, being hand fed so that it was basically tame, had wandered away, and is rare as hell. No wonder it didn't run.

The game warden had been looking for it, and copped this idjit red handed. Cost him thousands in fines, plus all sorts of other penalties.

Just a long-winded way to say that different people react to beautiful things in different ways.

Plenty of deer around here, but all of the plain brown variety.

Norm
 
We had a pair of them here about 5-6 years back. They were quite the local phenomenon, everyone knew about the white deer. One was unfortunately hit on the road and you've never seen news spread so quick! They were pretty cool to look at.
 
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