After posting A Sunday Visit To The Heck of a House Zoological Gardens, I realized that a collage of film clips of deer roaming the Heck of a House grounds during this past fall and winter that I had put together some time ago had never been placed online. That situation is now rectified, averting the potentially catastrophic loss to the arts and field biology.
The quality of the video, alas, does not rise to Walt Disney or Spielberg levels. It does not, in fact, rise to the level of even a documentary; I like to think of it as a documentation. One can, by squinting, certainly identify those large, mobile quadrupeds as deer. Beyond that, ones creative skills are called into play.
The entire clip is just over four minutes long.1 Of course, the highlight, a buck with an impressive rack that appeared for a moment within a few feet of the window where I stood with my camera, is in the final scene.
Most of the clips were shot from inside the house whenever I happened to notice these critters meandering about. The vertical bars that occasionally appear in the frame are posts dividing the window in the office I use. The most significant factor in the clarity of the clips is the amount of daylight during the filming. Given the overcast skies that typically accompany Chicagoland winters and the fact that deer are preferentially nocturnal, the small number of full daylight shots is hardly surprising. I have, however, compensated for the poor light by adding an extraordinary amount of camera shaking.
- For what it’s worth, this version is edited from an hour or so of video↩
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