True Twin Albino Deer seen in Quincy Michigan
Here are a some photos of a couple of albino deer in Quincy Michigan. These pictures were taken out the back door of a local homeowner. The homeowners have been seeing these two for a while but couldn’t snap a decent picture during the dusk or dawn hours. Recently they showed up to the feeder during daylight hours and they were able to get the photos below.
Albinism is hereditary and causes a lack of pigmentation. These albino deer have skin that lacks melanin (pigment) which helps protect the skin from ultraviolet radiation coming from the sun. They can sunburn easily from overexposure to direct sunlight. Lack of melanin in the eye also results in problems with vision.
Shooting and then mounting an albino deer used to be quite the trophy for hunters due to their rarity. Now, though, simply snapping a picture suffices.
How about that Browning logo feeder? I have no idea why the bottom photo was flipped.
The last picture taken in these series of pictures does not match….. If you look at it, the trees and everything are switched from being on left and right, are switched around….. How can this be? If they were to take a picture not from their door way, the opp of what the other pics were…….
Lauene, that last picture was flipped during editing. That’s why it looks backwards.
OK. So I have seen this picture several times now and if you do a google search the same picture shows up with claims the location is in their state. So far I have seen Montana, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Idaho and Texas. Can anyone authenitcate this picture and where it was actually taken?
It seems strange that there is a web page that talks about the twin albino fawns in MONTANA - and the pictures are the exact same pictures. So, who is right - where are they - why aren’t any names listed as to who took the pictures?
[...] out the photo was taken in Quincy, Mich. But, no matter where it was taken, these deer are too cool, and true [...]
If you get more pictures would enjoy viewing. Just awesome pic’s. Thanks for sharing. If you can keep track of these twins as they grow up would really enjoy to see how well they do.
Hello,
I see my photos of the albino deer made it to your website. They have been coming to my backyard feeder since 2006. Back then they were only fawns. The photo was flipped so the browning logo would be facing the right direction for their online contest.
If you would like to see more of the twins,go to http://kstp.com/article/stories/S348404.shtml?cat=1&v=1 The local TV from Minneapolis Mn. did a story on the twins from my home.
Thanks,
Tim
timroeschlein@scicable.com
Hello,
I see my photos of the twin albinos made it to this web site. Actually the photos were taken in Minnesota from my backyard.
I made the deer feeder and entered it at http://www.browning.com in their online contest. You can even vote on it! Hint hint!
The feeder was facing in the wrong direction for the Browning logo so I flipped the entry photo. The twins are so cool to watch and if you would like to see more of them go to http://kstp.com/article/stories/S348404.shtml?cat=1&v=1 Local TV from Minneapolis did a segment on the twins from my home.
Thanks,
Tim
timroeschlein@scicable.com