What do you think this is?

[Steuben Jerry]

I had pulled this card back during May, but just got around to looking at it and saw this all over this doe. I was thinking maybe a porcupine's quills?

 

It almost looks like she was showing it to the cam.

 

ETA: I didn't crop it to make the image larger, but you'll have to zoom in to see the detail.

Edited July 8, 2016 by Steuben Jerry

[growalot]

tough to see...but if it's long things on chest..maybe

[Steuben Jerry]

_{Here's a zoomed in look. Definitely long things, not only on the chest, but from the ear to the flank. Seemed too much to be quills, but that's all I could come up with.}

Edited July 8, 2016 by Steuben Jerry

[turkeyfeathers]

Whatever it is...I ain't eaten that one

[RangerClay]

If I were to guess, maybe the early stages of papilloma.  Either that or some parasite, you can see spots in the deer's ear.

[adkhunter71]

Still hard to tell even with the zoomed in picture, but it looks like it might be changing over from winter coat to summer coat to me.

[wooly]

Looks to me like nothing more than shedding out of it's winter coat.

You'll see all kinds of globs of deer hair laying around the woods that time of year.

Trail cams have a tendency to exagerate a lot of common stuff like that and we let our imaginations run wild. Zooming in only makes it look worse as the image quality starts to suffer.

 

Similar pic of what I'm talking about taken first week of May.

 

 

 

[Doewhacker]

100% sure its the Zika

 

 

 

I agree with Wooly, hair.

[Fletch]

Looks to me like nothing more than shedding out of it's winter coat.

You'll see all kinds of globs of deer hair laying around the woods that time of year.

Trail cams have a tendency to exagerate a lot of common stuff like that and we let our imaginations run wild. Zooming in only makes it look worse as the image quality starts to suffer.

 

Similar pic of what I'm talking about taken first week of May.

150086287.PozuZgol.jpg

 

 

/agree

[Steuben Jerry]

Looks to me like nothing more than shedding out of it's winter coat.

You'll see all kinds of globs of deer hair laying around the woods that time of year.

Trail cams have a tendency to exagerate a lot of common stuff like that and we let our imaginations run wild. Zooming in only makes it look worse as the image quality starts to suffer.

 

Similar pic of what I'm talking about taken first week of May.

150086287.PozuZgol.jpg

 

Makes sense Wooly. I've got similar pics of the one you posted, but it makes sense that it may be the very beginning of shedding her winter duds.

 

I've had several hundred more photos of the local does, and haven't seen it again exactly like that one.

[turkeyfeathers]

Still hard to tell even with the zoomed in picture, but it looks like it might be changing over from winter coat to summer coat to me.

In that case. Put it back on my plate

[jjb4900]

100% sure its the Zika

gotta look for its fawn...if it has a tiny head then you know it's the Zika

[wooly]

I don't mean to get too off topic, but here's a quick link that describes why you loose image quality when you zoom in with digital cameras.

Maybe phade has more info on this, but I also heard that some trail cam manufacturers are exaggerating their camers megapixel ratings by adding useless megapixels this way with interpolation.

I don't have any specific brand in mind, but your 20MP trail cam may in reality only be a 6MP cam.

 

http://cameras.about.com/od/technologies/a/what-is-interpolation.htm

Edited July 8, 2016 by wooly

[mac]

pic from April , probably shedding

[Critter4321]

yup looks like a bad hair day to me also

[G-Man]

Tufts of winter hair coming out is all..

[growalot]

duh ...I never looked at the back ground. Wooly is right....

[Steuben Jerry]

I don't mean to get too off topic, but here's a quick link that describes why you loose image quality when you zoom in with digital cameras.

Maybe phade has more info on this, but I also heard that some trail cam manufacturers are exaggerating their camers megapixel ratings by adding useless megapixels this way with interpolation.

I don't have any specific brand in mind, but your 20MP trail cam may in reality only be a 6MP cam.

 

http://cameras.about.com/od/technologies/a/what-is-interpolation.htm

 

Thanks Wooly - good info here!

[Doc]

The date on the photo is April. That is the time they are shedding their winter coat.

[Steuben Jerry]

The date on the photo is April. That is the time they are shedding their winter coat.

 

Agreed, I just never saw it look quite that way before.

[Paula]

It's April, shedding.

[fasteddie]

Wooly ---- I hate Interpolation ! 

[phade]

Most game cams are 5mp or less native resolution. The rest is interpolation as wooly noted.

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[wooly]

Most game cams are 5mp or less native resolution. The rest is interpolation as wooly noted.

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That was just a rumor I heard and thought to pass along, but glad to hear it can be confirmed.