Fawn and games
July 08, 2015
All this week we’ve had twin fawns hiding in various spots in the front garden while Mom eats the neighbors’ gardens browses all day.
Yesterday I surprised them — or rather they surprised me and Cosmo. As Cosmo nosed around and suddenly sniffed them out, they startled from their hiding place in the island bed, among the Turk’s cap and majestic sage.
One sprinted across the street into a neighbor’s yard, but the other one held steady, just pacing a bit before settling back down.
Cute now, but not so much when they lose those spots and start sampling and antlering the garden.
I’m a week late, but I’m joining Tina’s Wildlife Wednesday with this post.
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Beautiful photos of some delightful subjects.
They’re cuties, all right. For now. —Pam
It doesn’t get cuter than fawns–until they’re grown that is. If you haven’t seen it, you should check out Rebecca’s Texas Garden and her WW post. http://rebeccastexasgarden.blogspot.com/2015/07/wildlife-wednesday-fawning-over-june.html
Thanks for joining in and sharing your spotted visitors.
I read her post last night — did a big catch-up reading on everyone in my feed, actually — and it’s what inspired me to join in. I’m seeing fawns on lots of cenTex blogs this week. —Pam
Actually, I’m gratified that both of you have such nice dogs. Of course, if my old guy saw one, I imagine he’d be afraid of it.
Uh oh. Now you’ve gone and done it. Now they’re comfortable in your yard…which, of course, they think is THEIR yard and future buffet.
Yep. I’m afraid all my plants offer plenty of hiding places for the fawns. Although I see on other blogs that they’re also pretty content to hide in lawn grass, so maybe it doesn’t matter what you grow in your yard. It just needs to be grassy or they’ll eat it! —Pam
For the record, I just saw a hungry looking young momma deer browsing in our front beds but she’d found and was eating a volunteer ligustrum, so I’m a new convert to the benefits of grazing deer. As a judge in any other courtroom would say, “I’ll allow it”.
Win-win! —Pam
As someone who’s never had to deal with the challenges deer pose, I have to say my heart melts every time I see a fawn. Early imprinting by Bambi, I suppose.
They are a pain, but still, the fawns are adorable. —Pam
Deer regularly visit our country garden. Now that we are in the process of moving to a ‘walkable city’ I am looking forward to not worrying about deer. However, I recently learned that our urban neighborhood does have woodchucks! GRRRRRRR.
There’s always something! —Pam
They are definitely cute…for now at least, while they aren’t the culprits of munched down garden plants 😉 Even so, I still enjoy watching the deer mosey through our neighborhood at dusk…as long as my dogs are secured, otherwise we’d have a wild chase on our hands – deer running from dogs, dogs chaotically chasing the deer (with no regard for traffic), humans chasing dogs. Can you tell this has happened once or twice? 😉
That must have been entertaining for the neighbors, Rebecca. 🙂 —Pam
I agree that they are so ‘cute’ at this stage. I hope they grow up and move to a different neighborhood.