Category: Nature stuff

Deer season

By the Boss, Sunday, November 9, 2008 8:23 pm

It’s fall, when a young buck’s fancy turns to thoughts of love.

Deer do it in the fall, in other words. By spring, the does are too busy with babies to give the bucks a second thought.

But this time of year, romance beckons. Two bucks, like this guy in the photo, have been hanging around our resident herd of does all week, hoping to get lucky. They trumpet and look serious, and the does pretend to ignore them. Though we know better. Otherwise we wouldn’t have all those fawns each spring.

The bucks also pee a lot, meaning the whole orchard smells musty. Kind of like a bad singles bar.

It’s twins — again

By the Boss, Wednesday, June 4, 2008 9:26 pm

The doe shows off her new twins

Almost exactly a year ago she brought the last pair of twins to our attention.

This morning the slot-eared doe that seems always to be under foot in our yard showed up with her latest brood — scampering and jumping and then taking cover under mom.

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