Visitors to our yard

[Pam]

Here's the shot that hubby took a few weeks ago of the young buck in the woods, also just a little beyond our fence. Handsome, huh?

[blue]

Cool pics.

Ive had winter scares letting the dogs out when moose are in the yard.

[gini]

Oh Pam, what wonderful pictures. That is something I will never see in my backyard. I loved the picture of the young buck.

[boomersooner]

Great pictures of the young buck...He looks very confident and brave....just like a young buck!! HA

[Alysser]

What a great picture hubby took of the young buck. He's so handsome and looks pretty proud of himself. I always see deer near Six Flags(I MENTION this place WAY too much!!) INSIDE the parking lot and near the employee housing. There are many fire roads going through the woods around there and we see them all the time all the way down the dirt roads or in the fields by the employment center. The park has a big problem with wildlife at times, especially in winter.

[Casper]

Beautiful! I adore seeing deer, they are one of my most favorite animals.

Deer are a problem around here, too. Quite a few of them reside in our neighborhood. And like you, we live very close to a busy highway.

These two always hang out around our yard, but now have lost most of their spots.

Thanks for sharing those pictures, the deer were captured beautifully!

[Randi]

What a view you have, Pam! So soothing! I'll be looking forward to go for a walk in Dyrehaven (a wood north of Copenhagen) to see all the animals. This is the place:

[pomtzu]

Great pictures Pam. I live in the country and I don't get to see them at such a close range - across the front yard, across the road, across a field - and then finally the woods! Occassionally one will dart across the back yard late at night - Sparky took off in hot pursuit of one not too long ago. Dumb pup! With all I've seen this year it will probably be a great year for the hunters. Bummer!!!!

[jazzcat]

Neat pictures Pam.

My Dad has a mother with her two young that come into his front yard to eat apples from his tree every couple of days. I took some pictures with my cell phone but they didn't come out well.

My Father-in-Law just emailed pictures he took of 4 or 5 deer in his yard this week. I'm always terrified when I drive to either one's house that a deer will run out in front of me and this year there seems to be so many more.

[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.