She’s looking almost too high to be looking at a cat on the roof!
Wildlife out our window
Bonus critter, fire hazards, yard stuff and update
The last couple of days have been very windy. I’d hoped to start cleaning up the fallen twigs and branches around the yard by now, but we’re not quite there, yet.
While putting out feed for the birds and deer, I thought I would do one thing, though. There is a bird house on a post outside our dining room window that has a tree growing next to it. The tree has a couple of trunks growing out of its base, one of which is growing against the post, pushing it aside. I figured this would be a good time to try and shift the one trunk to the other side of the post. This way, it might start pushing the post straight again.
That didn’t quite work.
It broke off completely.
As you can see from the stump, this is not the first time it has broken! Though the tree only put out 2 or 3 cherries – the only reason we figured out what the tree was – it was in full leaf and seemed to be strong and healthy, so it was a bit of a surprise to see how dry and half-rotted the base turned out to be. It makes me wonder about the one part that’s still there.
We shall see how it does, this year.
Before heading out to see my husband in the hospital, we had a new visitor.
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Critter of the Day: Super-blep!
Critter of the Day: the lady and her friends
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!
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Critter of the Day: stretched
Another shot of the strange deer with the distinctive eyebrows, captured by my daughter, early in March.
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Critter of the Day: ‘morning, George
Another photo of some strange deer my daughter got for me, early in March.
It’s like they’re greeting each other while changing shifts. :-D
The incoming deer has some very distinctive eyebrows. I think it is one that we saw about this time last year, too! I should go back over my old photos and see.
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Critter of the Day: stranger blep
Another one of the photos of some strange deer my daughter caught, earlier this month. This is the deer with the antler nubbins she saw.
My daughter knows me well – she knew I would love it if she got a tongue blep for me! :-D
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Critter of the Day: bigger nubbins!
My daughter saw a strange group of deer coming into the feeding area and got some shots for me. Including this deer with larger antler nubs than the little guy that normally visits with his mum. :-)
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Detail is back!
When the piebald deer we saw last year, visited us again this year, I mused if another notable deer would return.
Yesterday evening, we had 6 deer outside our window. With the light fading, I took some video, as my phone camera automatically compensates for low light better in video, and hoped for the best.
Lo and behold, on reviewing the video, there I saw a butt with no tail!
Detail had returned.
I am so happy to know we have repeat visitors from a year ago! :-)
The Re-Farmer
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Critter of the Day: Boldness
Checking out that human in the window!
Though this deer seemed to be staring the camera down, in reality, if I move too fast behind the tripod, they tend to dash off immediately. So not really bold. Just pretending!
The Re-Farmer 