Fawn picture and camera question

Zachary Hoyt · Jun 15, 2011

I nearly backed over this fawn last week while backing up to the hay rake. It was maybe 6 feet behind the tractor when I stopped, didn't move. I ran to the house and got the camera and took a picture, was trying for a better angle where the head was more visible when I must have gotten too close and it ran, so I only got one picture. Question is where do you folks keep a camera on an open station tractor? I have a Massey 35 and a Farmall H and neither of them seems to have a handy spot to put it where it is out of the way and safe. Sometimes I see other wildlife but I know that by the time I went back to the house and got the camera it would be gone. Any advice will be much appreciated.
Zach

Anonymous-0 · Jun 15, 2011

I keep my camera in my shirt pocket. It does hit the ground once in a while but keeps on ticcin

Anonymous-0 · Jun 15, 2011

shirt pocket......

Was building some fence a couple years ago with my girl (dog) along to supervise. Finished driving a post and almost dropped the driver on a fawn. deer aren't much bigger than a german sheperd here so the little guy was about the size of a jackrabbit. Laying there so long it had slug trails over it. Dog didn't even know it was there. Thought it was sick and was gonna pick it up. Let out a squeel and was gone in a streak.....

onefarmer · Jun 15, 2011

Glad yo saw it. I've run to many through the haybine.

Zachary Hoyt · Jun 15, 2011

The shirt pocket idea is good, but the only shirt I have with pockets
is my 'funeral shirt' which I don't wear on the tractor. Some of my
coats have pockets, so I could do that in the colder months. Maybe
I need to rethink my wardrobe.....

MarkWV · Jun 15, 2011

I bought $5 zippered case at Walmart that also has beltloop on back, easy to take anywhere.

Offandgone · Jun 15, 2011

In the bib pocket of you overalls.
Frank

GordoSD · Jun 15, 2011

Get a good cel phone camera. Here's a SD fawn taken with an LG ENVYTOUCH cel.

Bob M · Jun 15, 2011

I nearly ran over this little guy while bush hogging last week. Amazingly it stood there watching me while I unpacked the camera, got off the tractor then shot 5 or 6 images.

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For carrying a camera on tractors I use a Samsonite soft padded camera bag (Walmart; about $25). It protects the camera nicely from shock, airborne dirt, rain, etc. yet allows quick access to the camera when required.

On Farmall letter tractors I use the bag's velcro belt loops to attach the bag to the light bar. On 2 cylinder Deere tractors it nestles nicely on the tranny deck between the flywheel cover and the clutch rod. On a Minnie Mo U it rides the tranny deck between the gas tank support and the rock shaft. And on the modern Deere tractors it fits nicely on the utility shelf or on the floor in the right front corner of the cab.

chess · Jun 16, 2011

Thats a post card photo! Clear even at 400 percent magnafication. Others are really nice too! Makes you really appreciate some of natures creations when you see them so close.

Mathias NY · Jun 16, 2011

I took this one with the camera on my phone. The phone is always with me, so I don't need to carry a separate camera. The quality isn't quite as good, but it is convenient.

I spooked this one while driving by with the mower and scared it into my deer fencing. In hindsight I wish it hadn't figured out it could squeeze through the wire, because I've found it inside the fence almost every day since.

RLA · Jun 16, 2011

Not long ago in my travel to work & came up
behind a Amish kid in a open station buggy.
The wind was blowing hard so one of his arms
was busy keeping the straw hat planted on his
head. His armpit heald the reins to the trotting
horse & in his other had was a cell phone
planted in his ear.. It was then I realized
I must be the only person left in Pa. Who's
never had a Cell Phone?

Billy NY · Jun 16, 2011

Just had to add to this as the first round in the field near my house one just born, blue eyes, ended up going through the mower. Kinda ruins your day, even though they can be such pests, sucker topped a couple of pepper plants in the garden before the fence went up, well maybe they will split and I'll get 2x the yield LOL ! Well anyway, I kinda recognize the deer by their face, markings and don't you know she had twins ! Twins seem to be common, and I see triplets sometimes.

JML755 · Jun 16, 2011

Like others I use a zippered case with a belt loop. I try and avoid carrying my cell phone on my belt because the case isn't zippered and with the bouncing and such, I figure I'm bound to lose it.

Just on Sunday I was mowing when something jumped up from in front of one of the rear tires. It was a fawn about the size of big house cat. Never moved in the previous pass about 5 ft away and the grass was too tall and thick in that area to see it. I try and keep an eye out for stuff as I mow. If I had been going any faster, I don't think it would have made it. Didn't squeal or nothing and couldn't move very fast in the thick grass as it ran away. Kinda cute. But I had left my camera on the front seat of the pickup that day.

James Howell · Jun 16, 2011

Last Sunday Nancy was walking down the trail to "the bottom" and found this one.

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She came back and got me to come look.

She went back to the house and got both the digital camera and FLIP video camera.

Got several photos and three <a href="http://youtu.be/qspVLnkMnH0">video</a>s of the fawn.

I keep the video camera in the top pocket of my bib overalls when on a tractor.

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