This photo was taken on April 4, after the storm had passed. The feed left for the deer was covered, but they could still find it!
With these two, the young male comes right in, while his mother hangs back, watchfully, before joining him. This day, it meant he had time to find one of the piles of deer feed already, and she just pushed her way right in there!
I leave about 6 or 8 piles, but they hadn’t found the other ones, yet. :-D
All caught up with March, and now posting photos taken this month.
These were taken on April 4 – the day I drove my husband to the hospital in the city for some tests, and got him back to his room at the local hospital, just before a storm hit.
The weather outside may have been nasty, but that didn’t stop some hungry redpolls!
If you look behind the birds, you can get some idea of just how windy is was – like in the first one, where you can see seeds being blown away!
This one is the last of the photos from March that I’ll be posting.
It’s nice to see the purple finches back!
One thing about the melting snow is that lots of seeds that were covered are now being exposed.
Which translates to feasting time for the redpolls!
We were able to get a whole bunch of photos of the piebald deer that started visiting us last year.
She tends to show up with several other deer.
The day these were taken, there were 6 deer, altogether.
Yes!!! I got a tongue blep! :-D
She is such a beauty!
Though she shows up with a herd, we have been able to identify the deer with her here as her offspring.
From what I can tell, the group is three does with their offspring. Whether they are a herd, or if they just happen to show up for some free food at the same time, I am not sure.
It would be awesome if she became one of our regular visitors!
I just uploaded another batch of photos from the feeding station outside our living room window. I’ll be posting the last of the March images over the next while, starting with this little cutie!
The chickadees like to grab seed from the feeders, then go into the lilac branches. There, we can see them pecking at the branch they are on, apparently trying to break the seed they brought with them. The blue jays like to do the same thing with sunflower seeds.
The Re-Farmer 