Showing posts with label Deer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Deer. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

The Hawk, the Squirrel, the Fox, and the Deer

I was on the phone when I glanced out the window and watched a hawk land on a tree across the way. Next thing I knew, the hawk was chasing a squirrel, its wings flapping, head bobbing as the bird tried to grab the furry little thing in its talons. The squirrel ran in circles around the tree, it's fluffy tail wagging behind it like a flag. It raced to the back of the tree, and I lost sight of it.

So did the hawk. With its prey gone, it flew off, and I turned my attention back to my conversation.

Then I looked out the window again and saw a fox trotting across the pasture, not far from where the hawk had just been defeated by the squirrel. A mother fox with kits, I guessed, since she was out in the middle of the day. She didn't look rabid or anything. She was just going about her business, doing fox things in a fox way. 

I had to tell the person on the phone what I was seeing, because I don't see foxes very often and this was rather exciting. Fortunately, my caller is a nature lover, too, and understood my enthusiasm. But not enough for me to hang up the phone and find a camera. The fox would have been long gone, anyway.

Not long after the fox went by, I saw a small herd of deer wandering up from the creek, heading into the same pasture the fox has just vacated.

The deer were in no hurry, and I watched them simply flop down beneath the oak trees, sunning themselves in the warmth of the day.

They were still there when I ended my call. I grabbed the camera. They weren't a fox or a hawk, but they remained, still resting and soaking in the sun, and the other animals had vanished.

This is what I love about my life. Where else could I have such a view, and see such things on a warm spring day?


Deer just hanging out in the sunshine.


Tuesday, March 05, 2024

Deer in the Yard




 

Friday, January 26, 2024

Friday Morning

 





It's unseasonably warm here now, so much so that I stepped outside onto the front porch in only my robe, slippers, and nightgown to take a photo of the moon. The deer in the front yard ignored me entirely. That gleaming white dot in the sky in the last photo is an over-exposed moon. The light was still low, so I was playing with camera settings to try to get the deer and the moon in a single shot. I would have preferred to have the moon look like the shot that looks like the moon is supposed to look, but the deer left before I could figure out where I needed to set the dial on the camera.


Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Bucks Battle It Out!

 


This afternoon I watched these two bucks go head-to-head for a few minutes.

Wednesday, December 06, 2023

Is This Rudolph?


 

Friday, November 24, 2023

I Hunt with the Camera



 

Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Posing for the Camera




 

Friday, November 10, 2023

The Battle

 
Two young bucks having a go at one another. As best I could tell, it was a draw.




Wednesday, November 08, 2023

They Come Close

This is not a great picture, but this morning, I glanced out of my office window and this little buck was right there. I could have touched him if there hadn't been a window between us.

Here's a bad photo to prove it. The siding is the window curtain. Really! 



Monday, October 23, 2023

Camouflaged

 


Friday, October 06, 2023

Let Me Get That Itch

 


Monday, September 04, 2023

In Velvet

 




Friday, May 12, 2023

Having a Rest

 







Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Where the Deer Rest

In the front of my house is a small glen, hidden from the road and everything else save for the front of my house.

Since we generally are no threat, the deer like to hang out there.





Tuesday, January 03, 2023

They Come This Close

Who needs binoculars when they look in the window?




Wednesday, November 23, 2022

I Hunt with the Camera

 



Wednesday, November 09, 2022

Friday, July 08, 2022

Deer Mom



 

Tuesday, June 21, 2022

New Arrival



 

Monday, April 04, 2022

Too Many Deer