This morning I went outside to
feed Kitten and Miley some dry food. I'm sitting there on the step
watching them eat when Kitten abruptly stops eating and looks towards the
forest. I thought maybe another one of her kittens was coming so I
watched the forest as well. After a while nothing happened so I looked
down at Miley who was still munching away. Looking up again to see if
Kitten was still watching the forest, I could see a deer poke its head around
from behind a tree!
I know my forest has deer, but
rarely does one ever come out of the forest so close to the house.
Especially when a person is outside (and I know for a fact that it saw
me). I was absolutely astounded. As it came into clearer view I could
see that it still had the faint spots of a fawn even though it was approaching
adult size. Still amazed at the fact this deer was there, another fawn the
same size/age as the other came out of the forest as well.
My surprise was probably clear on
my face when I saw TWO deer standing only meters away! One of them even
went up on the lawn to my right, which meant it was only around two and a half/three
meters away from me. Quietly it sniffed the grass and then walked back to
the forest. Once back in the forest it bounded away with it's sibling
into the depths.
The whole time Miley was half
under the deck staring cautiously at the large grazers and Kitten was in the
same state.
Deer are just so beautiful and graceful;
I don’t see why anybody would want to shoot one for fun.
I'd have to say that this was the
most amazing morning of my whole summer.
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