On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:05:49 +1000, "Farm1" >
wrote:

>"Brooklyn1" <Gravesend1> wrote in message
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>> "Farm1" wrote:
>>>"Brooklyn1" wrote:
>>>>"Farm1" wrote:
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>>>>> Do they stay round your place during the winter?
>>>>
>>>> They're here all year.
>>>
>>>Thanks Sheldon. Does snow fall and stay on the ground where you live?
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>> http://i48.tinypic.com/do6scj.jpg
>> http://i47.tinypic.com/6syi6s.jpg
>> http://i48.tinypic.com/2d6o1lj.jpg
>> http://i50.tinypic.com/f2o9r5.jpg
>> http://i46.tinypic.com/sc6ys9.jpg
>
>OMG! What do the deer eat when it's like that for a long time? I notice
>that you've thrown some food out for one of them but is their grazing for
>the other deer int he woods or what?
>
>Lovely pics BTW.

In winter their diet changes to less grass and more twigs. They
browse the brush at the forest edge and eat the exposed grass
protected from snow cover by conifers... deer will also dig down
through the snow.