caretaker

I took pictures of making chile verde yesterday and salsa roja today.

Bucks_Family

Today our packers arrived and have made short work of boxing our worldly goods. This is just day one of four and a half days scheduled for the wrapping and packing!

Dave n Ailsa

LOL, that looks so familiar.

dbd33

Grass. Mown.

Greenhill

Just remember to give WHO a call if you hear of some new equine-avian flu virus in the area...

dbd33

Well yes, somewhere in there are nine chickens, or parts thereof.

caretaker

Borscht, chili, and the squirrel that shares the walnut tree.

Steve_P

Dozens of these guys in our back yard this morning.

Cookie

This little baby lives in my garden and sleeps in my flower bed

caretaker

Awwww, that's a late one, still wearing spots this time of year! They (as well as Dbd33's poultry) are at serious risk of getting baled along with the alfalfa when the does hide them there.

Cookie

I haven't seen the mother at all and the fawn has been here for weeks. There is a few acres of woodland around our house. Fearing it was lost, I looked online and read that the mother is staying away to help keep her fawn safe from predators since they have no scent to attract predators themselves. I hope that's what has happened. It looks well fed.

caretaker

I've never heard of a deer leaving a fawn that long in someone's yard, returning to feed it each night, but I certainly don't know everything. One gave birth outside my trailer at the beach one night, left it for about 3 hours, I suppose, (they go to discharge the afterbirth away from their fawn because of predators) then came and got it before sunrise. Maybe the doe just recognizes a great safe place until baby can keep up. I think that scent-free status is gone after a day or two and if it looks healthy mom must be visiting.
My Uncle spotted this one and saved it from being run over by the combine, he kept it in the barn until hunting season was over and let it go. I can remember playing with this deer in the farmyard, and I thought it was big... perspective is everything! Look at the spots on it! The date on the back of the pic is 1959, and since we used to take time using film I was probably 4. I tell people this is me with my first deer.

Cookie

There are a few different spots around the garden the fawn sleeps, the closest one being against the corner of our house amongst bushes. Groups of deer are often in our garden and they just look at us if we go outside. Strategy enough, we have seen no adult deer for a month or two, just the fawn. We live within town boundaries.

Shard

Idyllic (but not very Camdenesque)!

caretaker

Since they're mostly nocturnal you might not see them, so they're probably still coming aaround. If so your baby will probably trot off with them soon. If it's own momma isn't around another one should adopt it, I've seen that a lot.