I decided to walk down to the river with a few of my friends yesterday, it was such a gorgeous day. The sun was shining, there was not a cloud in the sky and it was around forty degrees. Although there is no snow on campus, as we got deeper into the woods, more and more snow was present. I spotted deer tracks in the snow. I believe this to be a footstep from a white-tailed deer.

The white-tailed deer, also known as the Virginia deer is a medium sized deer native to the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, and Central America. In North America, it is widely distributed east of the Rocky Mountains. In the west the Rocky's it is replaced by the black-tailed or mule deer.

The white-tailed deer varies in size, North American male deer weigh between 130-290 pounds and the North American female deer weigh from around 88-200 pounds. Of course there are a few exceptions here and there, that's just an average. Male deer, commonly referred to as buck or stag, re-grow their antlers each year. Usually female deer, doe, do not grow antlers... although 1 in 1,000 do grow them.

Habitat: forest

What I found interesting: the snow was very compact and hard that the foot print of the deer really stuck out, I found that to be very neat.