It was almost too dark to get photos, but I was able to get some of a trio of deer visitors!

When I saw three of them, I thought it might be Mama and the Twins, but once the antler nubs started to show, we could see that her twins were 1 male and 1 female.

Today’s visitors included two young males.

You can see the antler nubs on the two deer feeding in the photo above.

I had put out 8 little piles of seeds this evening, and they moved around a lot, from pile to pile, making it hard to get photos in the failing light.  I got a lot of motion shots! :-D

I don’t think I recognize them at all.

While we’re not seeing deer as often anymore, now that the snow is gone (though from the disappearing feed, I’d say they’re coming over throughout the night), the ones we do see are looking rather rough, with all sorts of patches missing in their fur, and looking quite thin, as well.  It may be they’re losing their winter coats, but the patches in their fur don’t look like they are from shedding.

They didn’t stay long, nibbling at the piles of seeds while constantly on the alert.  After a while, they headed out into the garden area and started grazing by the remains of the wood pile.

With spring finally showing some greenery, any feed we put out is basically a treat.  They should be finding plenty of food in the bush, now.

The Re-Farmer