Eye of the Deer

“The eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is clear [spiritually perceptive, focused on God], your whole body also is full of light [benefiting from God’s precepts]. But when it is bad [spiritually blind], your body also is full of darkness [devoid of God’s word]. “Be careful, therefore, that the light that is in you is not darkness. – Luke 11:34-35 AMP

This buck (male deer) had an absolute fascination with my trail cam. From the photos both before and after this one, he continued to walk back and forth in front of the camera, sometimes looking toward it with just his side vision, then sometimes straight-on, as pictured above.

The eyes of deer are placed on the sides of their heads, which gives them a field of vision of about 310 degrees, allowing them to see almost full circle around them. This obviously helps them avoid predators which may be approaching from most any direction.

By contrast, the field of vision for humans is approximately 135-150 degrees.

Some scientists theorize that the side placement of the eyes may mean that deer have a bit more difficulty determining depth perception (how far something is away from them) than do humans.

The trail cam took hundreds of pictures of animals at this location, but it appeared that this buck was the only one that took much notice of it. I’m not exactly sure what feature on the camera caught his attention, but whatever it was, he sure was curious about it.

Be Careful

Eyes are mentioned some 500 times in the Bible, so I reckon our eyes – and what we look at – must be important to God, and to us as well.

The above passage cautions us to keep our focus on God so that we may benefit from His presence and His guidance in our lives.

To learn about the new growth of antlers on bucks during the springtime, please see my post A New Thing II.

And to learn more about your very own relationship with the God Who guides us with His Word and loves us beyond imagination, please see Got God?

Hope you have a great day.