I have the day off so I went over to the Brookside Ave. wetland to see what might be going on there this morning. I was going to check out the butterfly situation, but instead I stumbled across some White-tailed Deer, a doe and her faun. I saw Mama first; she was staring intently into the adjacent cornfield, but I couldn't figure out what she was staring at. Then the faun wandered out of the corn next to her. It stared with Mama for a while, then looked around. It saw me, but I was standing stock still with only my index finger moving on the camera's shutter button, and I guess it figured I was a tree. Eventually Mama looked around, too, and saw me; she stomped her left front foot on the ground and boogied for the woods, and the faun followed. So I continued to walk along the trail and found out what Mama was looking for; I flushed a second faun not too far away from where the original two were standing, and it ran off in Mama's direction. So that was my excitement for the morning!
© 2017 by A. Roy Hilbinger
I've seen an awful lot of deer on the side of the road, or even in the road as I've driven around in Massachusetts and nearby Connecticut.
ReplyDeleteOne night, I was on a darkened section of road and almost hit one. She was standing still in the middle of the road, and as I passed her, she didn't even move, although I was so close that I could have reached out of my car window and touched her.
And another time, when my sister and I were visiting my mother one Thanksgiving, we looked out of the rear window, beyond the porch, and saw a doe resting at the base of a tree far below us. Amazing creatures.