New summer, new antlers

John of Catskills Photography captured this young buck posing with some velvety new antlers in the Sullivan County hamlet of Rock Hill on June 2 and shared it in the Watershed Post Flickr pool.

Correction: An alert reader points out that deer have antlers, not horns. Forgive me -- I wasn't on my fact-checking game this morning. For more on the difference between antlers and horns, check out the National Park Service's helpful fact sheet. - Julia

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