The smaller of the pair of deer that come by regularly now, trying to eat a frozen apple.
I’ve knocked down as many of the frozen apples as I can reach with the pole I found. From the branches I’ve been finding on the ground, I think they’ve been trying to reach up to them, and pulling twigs down in the process.
I go this photo this evening, of three deer showing up at the feeding station. It was getting a bit too dark for photos (we’re fully dark by 5:30, these days), but I did manage a couple.
None of them are the ones we’ve been seeing for the past while.
Less than 10 minutes after I took this, more showed up. By the time I got back to the window, there was 4 at the feeding station, a 5th one had been chased off, and two more were under the crab apple tree!
So we’ve gone from having 1 or 2 show up at a time, to an entire herd!
Maybe time to start leaving more than just an ice cream bucket full of deer feed. :-D
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This little 2 prong buck has been coming by at least once a day.
I call him Bucky. Because I’m so original when it comes to naming critters. :-D
I’ve just uploaded a new batch of photos from the camera in the living room, and have a few I’ll be sharing over the next few days.
Including these guys.
Deer have started to show up every day, now, sometimes several times a day. There’s just three of them that come regularly; a buck that always comes alone, and a pair that come together, if not always at the same time. One looks like a buck that’s already lost his antlers for the winter. He sometimes comes alone, or ahead of the other, larger, doe.
Their winter fur is coming in, and their colour is starting to get greyer.
From the tracks I’m able to see as I do my rounds, they are in and out quite a bit, throughout the day! :-)
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I had started to see the pine grosbeaks in some of our crab apple and ornamental apple trees. Once I picked up the the new birdseed, we’ve started to see them at the feeder. Especially this lovely couple.
She looks a bit perplexed.
She was also much harder to get pictures of! The male, on the other hand, was more co-operative.
This was taken out my office window this morning.
He started by the feeding station, walked completely around the house, then meandered his way over towards the barn.
Checking later, yeah, the wire for the electric fence is pulled up a bit again.
Need to look around for some kind of ribbon I can attach to the wire, so they can see it.
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Just managed to catch a photo of a woodpecker that was hanging upside down, then off the side of the platform feeder.
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