Heidi Flushes Out A Deer

I will be posting 2-3 posts today about this morning's walk but I wanted to get these photos up quick for you to see what Heidi did this morning. I will discuss more in detail in the next post but here are unedited, non-cropped photos telling the story.

I hear Heidi barking but can't find her. As you see in the first photograph she is nowhere in the immediate area.

Just over that hill towards my house in that photo, a deer bounces out in panic mode with Heidi in pursuit and baying loudly nonstop. The deer heads towards me and  Sadie in a panic mode and is sprinting, running dodging looking for a way out ... while Heidi barked loudly and running as fast as those basset hound legs would carry her.

MY CAMERA WOULDN'T WORK!!!!

By the time I caught the deer with the camera it has sprinted from the back of my house, across the next lot and the wooded area shown below. She was already behind my neighbors 3 lots away. Of course the bloodhounds went from a quiet stroll back home to a full out sprint.

Stella in pursuit

Sadie so excited doesn't know which direction to go

Heidi still in pursuit baying

Sadie wanting to run to me to tell me what happened

All three hounds came back when I kept calling "come here" ... I have no idea where the deer came from because when I saw the deer it was about 50' from my house in the backyard based on the location of where I first saw her.

More details in the next post -- cropped zoomed photos -- in the meantime you can click these for a larger view.

Never a dull moment in 'the tropics' of Southern Indiana.