Stay at Home Deer

It seems I have some stay at home deer. 

A doe early this year brought her tow fawns to visit. 

They were behind my shed and inside the fence in a 

pretty hard place to get out. But they finally did 

and one with mom and the other went the opposite direction. 

I was worried about her finding the second one 

but those worries were later dashed as I have seen 

them many times since here in the yard. 

Now that winter has set in we see them almost 

daily as they sleep here a lot so they are by the 

apple trees and the fallen apples that I didn't clean up

or piled in the garden to use as mulch. 

There were so many that we couldn't 

can, dry, freeze dry, or give them all away 

so the deer by default have been able to feed 

on them as well as other plants around the yard.

 I love the shadow on the tree trunk with this little one.

 These are the two fawns. 

Another doe with the first three. 

 See the vehicles go by and they just keep eating.

They are only about twenty feet from the road.

 They do watch them with interest however 

and are ready to turn and run if needed.