I think the deer are enjoying the weird warm winter as much as I am since it is easier for them to find grass and other things to eat since it is not buried under deep snow. Although this deer seems to watching something now instead of eating, but it was nibbling the grass a few seconds earlier.
Deer Watching
I forget to look outside before opening my house door and often scare the deer which have been hanging around my yard, including a pair of fawns.
Yard Fawns
A deer has been wandering around in my yard the last week and she was only a few feet away from my basement door this morning. It probably was the same deer I scared later this afternoon when I was mowing my lawn, as it not one of the two does with little fawns.
Door Deer
The day was filled with different critters today, from the skunk and raccoon eating the cat food in the barn, to the red-tailed hawk, bald eagles, geese and sandhills flying overhead while the pheasant and turkeys check beneath the bird feeder plus the deer on the side of the road not making up its mind where it wanted to go.
Deer Walking in Snow
Today was “critters on the road” day. Four tom turkeys were taking their sweet time crossing the road when I was heading for lunch. And when I was leaving work this evening, a deer was in the middle of the road and it didn’t want to leave the road, probably since it didn’t want to climb the ditch snow banks and stand in that cold white stuff.
Ditch Deer
It is a good thing these deer are not Santa’s reindeer because the way they are covered in snow, Santa’s sleigh might not get off the ground.
Deer Covered in Snow
On a recent road trip, there were numerous sightings of deer on or near the road. This fawn was in the road, but it ran to one side of the road while its sibling and mother ran to the opposite ditch. I’m sure it was glad when I left so that it could rejoin its family.
Fawn Waiting
It seems like the deer have been more active around my house lately instead of down by the pond as I noticed them at my basement door and eating dried flower heads. With the ground covered in snow, finding something to eat isn’t as easy as during summertime fill with green grass and leaves.
Deer in Green
While deer hunters on the opening day of gun season are looking for deer, the deer might be watching the hunters instead.
Deer Watching
The other morning, two fawns were playing down by my pond without their mothers. And three hours later, they were in my front lawn, still without either doe. So I think the two sneaked away from their mommies and probably got in trouble as I didn’t see either of them the next day. This morning I spotted one fawn so was worried something happened to its mother but a few minutes later the doe came racing into the yard (like maybe her kid wandered away again).
Playful Fawn
