Visitors to our yard

[cassiesmom]

When we lived in Chicago we had deer. Yup...in the city of Chicago. I would see them often very early in the morning. One evening we were out for a walk and saw a momma deer and her twin fawns a couple blocks from our house. They were having a buffet of the community garden! Then we saw poppa...a buck with a gorgeous rack!

I should note we lived on the edge of a forest preserve and golf course.

Your visitors are lovely!

Awwww, hello, lovely visitors!

Every now and again, mostly in the spring, I see a doe close to the road at the edge of the forest preserve.

[Cinder & Smoke]

Living in the country, with over a mile of dense woods covering the north
side of the road across from the Ranch, we see a deer or two or three
almost any day of the year. And they often visit the pond for a sip 'o
water in the evenings.

The FurKids and I were bussing our way home from somewhere late at
night last fall ... I'd just turned into the driveway and neared the Pond
on the left ... when Clipp & Clopp *exploded* out of the back seat and
jammed their heads out my driver's window **BARKIN** their heads off!

I stomped on the brakes and tried to reel in the K9 Alarm system ...
just in time to avoid being overrun by The Herd of Bambi's relatives!

At least 4-5 adults, and a horde of yearlings (6-8 in number) spooked and
dashed up the bank from the pond, split in two to run around the bus,
(TWO jumped OVER the hood ) and then beat feet across the front
yard, over the fence, and into the neighbor's woods.

I don't think ANY of us had ever been THAT close to a deer on the run,
let alone a dozen of 'em!!
The Dynamic Duo spent a LOTTA Tyme on their outie trying to *sniff* out
the intruding deer; luckily for all, the deer had wandered off to less
disturbing and noisy stomping grounds.