I’ll tell my deer tale
We have a lot of deer passing through the neighborhood. This season we had two does with three fawns. They come around almost every day and the fawns have grown quite large.
There was one fawn that seemed not to mind the mother and would wander quite comfortably into or yard. It would come and browse and then lie down in a large patch of English Ivey for hours. Most days, the mother would show up and take it home to the nearby densly wooded an very large sink.
The fawn has seen me on numerous occasions and while leery, is not frightened by my appearance.
This morning it was back eating acorns. I stepped out and it looked at me and then resumed eating acorns
In some respects, to the fawn, my yard is home, where it grew up
I live in a residential neighborhood that was free of deer for 40 years or more
Awww... Similar story here, except my fence broke, and two fawns would come into my yard at night to snack on their favorite leaves and play. They were not frightened by our family looking at them. In fact, they looked very happy and content frolicking in our backyard. Then they started growing larger, and I decided I had to scare them off because they were way too comfortable. I stepped outside. They looked at me and then returned to munching on the leaves. Then I said, “Shoo!” and they darted off, never to return again. I felt so bad. :-( They were so cute. So many deer around here. One came running into a store I was working in once.
I used to really enjoy seeing occasional deer and other wildlife crossing or on side of road near prairie by my home. Ever since they built an apartment complex they are gone. I lament the fact that human beings feel the need to erect more and more sprawling structures to house people, many of whom, who shouldn’t even be here, and thus encroaching on the habitat and well being of God’s other creatures.