I may not have posted deer photos yesterday, but I did get some!

My older daughter also took advantage of our camera set up and got a few nice shots of a blue jay in the trees.

The two deer that come together came yesterday, and today.  Yesterday, the one that looks so hungry all the time did get some of the feed, but she’s so skittish, she ran off quickly, and ever got a chance to come back.

I did manage to get a photo of her in mid chew, though.  I love it!

She looks like she’s making faces at me! :-D

I have noticed that, when they come together, they both go to different food piles and eat together for a while.  However, hungry girl gets startled far more easily, and dashes off a few feet.  She then hangs around, looking everywhere, before she starts making her way back to the feed.  That is when the mean one starts chasing her away. :-(

Today, however, it was a bit different.

Now that we have a sack of bird seed as well as deer feed, I did things a bit differently, by putting out alternating piles of deer feed and bird seed.

I don’t know if that made the difference, but today, when she got startled off, she actually came back and ate some more, without being chased off.

The other deer started out eating the bird seed.  Considering the birds have been eating their feed for all this time, I figure that’s a fair deal. ;-)

The other possibility is that the other deer was just too distracted to chase off the hungry one.

 

As the deer were coming over, this one was very leery of the cat at the bottom of one of the spruce trees.

The cats, on the other hand, don’t seem all that disturbed by the deer. :-D

I didn’t take many photos today, because our movements distract her, and I didn’t want her to run off.  I hope that, for today, at least, she got a full meal!

The Re-Farmer