Feeding Time

Every evening at about 6:00, my DH puts out sweet feed for the deer and cat food for the fox/raccoon/cat/skunk/possum/whatever else might wander by. There is one doe that eats the cat food! The deer know when it is "feeding time" and they come around and watch for him, then hang around close while he's putting it down. When he's done, they come running up to the food. We are sure the deer aren't as friendly with people other than right here and right at feeding time because we've seen them in our woods and they run away.

Munching Doe

Just another deer picture. They love to browse on the vines and bushes down in back of our house.

Fawn & Family

Okay, I know I'm overdoing the fawn pictures but I can't help it. It is so beautiful!! I love the pic with the mama, the young buck and the fawn. It looks as though they are protecting the fawn.

Fawn Pictures - finally

Finally! The doe brought the fawn around in the daylight. It was having a blast, chasing the doves, running from one doe to the other. Perhaps the other doe is a surrogate because it was going to both of them. It was so much fun to watch! It seemed like it was mimmicing mom, too, in the occasional stomping of the feet, the looking out for danger, etc. I took 115 pictures, plus a short video, and it was hard to decide which pics to post! They all turned out good.

Intimate Moment

A child is always your child, no matter how big they get. This holds true for deer too. This is a mother doe with her "baby", a fawn that was born last year. She's cleaning his head, even his ears.

Fawn

Another fawn picture. I took this from inside the house. Later that evening my husband and I were up in our gazebo, away from the house, when we saw the deer family come to the bird feeder, with the fawn! The fawn stood right in front of our house where it would have been a perfect picture, but of course I wasn't there and I didn't have my camera. There'll be more opportunities, I'm sure!

Deer Family Outing - with Fawn!

Last evening four deer and a fawn came out of the back woods and walked around. It was so exciting to see the fawn! We see these deer all of the time and thought one probably has a fawn. This one looks like it is only days old. Its fur under the spots is much darker than the adults'. It was chasing Uncle Buck, the young buck that hangs around (see previous post). The pictures aren't that good because it was getting dark and I had to take the pictures through the screen window. They went down into the pasture and played around but my camera battery went dead.

Little Buck

We have two small bucks that come to the feeder. One is a "button buck" and the other one is getting pretty nice-sized antlers. Here's a picture of the larger buck. We just hope and pray he doesn't get shot this hunting season since we have watched him "grow up!" He won't get shot on OUR property - at least there had better not be any hunters on our property! We think the doe in the picture is the larger buck's mom.