Button Buck On The Bloomin' Range
by Tami Quigley
Title
Button Buck On The Bloomin' Range
Artist
Tami Quigley
Medium
Photograph - Photography ~ Digitally Enhanced
Description
“The wildlife and its habitat cannot speak, so we must and we will.”
~ Theodore Roosevelt
~ 1858-1919
~ Naturalist & Conservationist
~26th President of The United States of America
~ 1901-1909
With the late afternoon air perfumed with the scent of honeysuckle and the early May landscape brightened with bloomin’ wild yellow mustard, this beautiful white-tailed button buck pauses from grazing ~ with his mama doe nearby ~ on a hillside of the Central Range of the 1,100-acre Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania.
When the late General Harry C. Trexler established the preserve in the early 1900s, he did it to save the American bison, elk and white-tailed deer from extinction and assure the species’ survival.
A conservationist along the lines of Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir, General Trexler understood the importance of nature and preserving wildlife in its natural habitat.
A successful businessman who amassed a fortune in the timber and cement industries and founded the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company, General Trexler began purchasing small farms in the low hills of Lehigh County in 1906. By 1913, he had transported eight bison and 20 Virginia white-tailed deer to the preserve. The elk followed soon after.
When General Trexler died in 1933, he bequeathed the property to the residents of Lehigh County. Today, the Trexler Nature Preserve is open to the public for passive recreation and nature watching.
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May 11th, 2021
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Laurie Search
This has to be one of your very best images, Tami!!! It is just so, so adorable and sweet, and I love the framing with the flowers!! :)))vf
Tami Quigley replied:
Thank you so very much Laurie, really appreciate it very much! He was a cutie to see for sure:)
Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your camera art has been nominated as a Special Feature by a fellow artist Camera Art member for your superb art in Camera Art Group!! Please share the love by nominating a fellow artist whose work is in Camera Art You can do that in the "Artist Special Feature Nomination" discussion in the Camera Art Group.
Tami Quigley
Many thanks Mariola Bitner for the feature in Wildlife ~ ONE A DAY & Our 4-Legged Friends, greatly appreciated!
Tami Quigley
Many thanks Nina Prommer for the feature in ART ~ It Is Good For You, much appreciated!
Shoal Hollingsworth
This is really wonderful. I have nominated this for a Special Feature in the Camera Art Group. L/F
Steve Gass
Nice catch Tami, he's still got his winter coat on, l/f.
Tami Quigley replied:
Thanks so much Steve! Yes, when I see them molting like that I always think they need a good brushing, like you'd brush a horse:)
Aurelio Zucco
Incredible capture, Tami! So cool...I get the impression the deer posed for you...Nice composition! L/F
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