It’s great to see this guy develop. We’ve watched him grow from a fawn and he is the tamest and gentlest of all the deer that comes by. Unfortunately all the deer are being plagued with deer fly right now.
Better Every Year
Category Archives: Wildlife
Growing Fast
Fawn Time
We have a doe bringing around her twins almost daily now. The fawns will sleep in the ferns or on our lawn for a hour or two while their mother browses through our garden. At times she seems to either forget or lose them but they always manage to find each other.
In Golden Pond
I think this is a Predacious Diving Beetle larva. About 2 inches long (5.08 cm) and not something I would like to run into while swimming.
Frog
Reindeer?
Barred Owl
A young Barred Owl hunting during our cold snap
The Buck Stops Here
After a frenzied few weeks of rutting season our resident senior buck came by to rest up on the lawn. A couple of the ladies walked by but he showed little interest so all should be calm until next year.
Northern Red-legged Frog (Rana aurora)
Another Day, Another Bear
I was working in the yard today and looked up just in time to see a large male bear wandering past the vegetable garden. I’m not sure where he came from but it looks like he had been rolling around a bit – perhaps just got up from a nap. I hadn’t seen the male around since the Spring but he is looking fit and healthy albeit a little muddy.
Hope you don’t mind all the pictures of bears. That’s the problem with photographers, we tend to obsess. Go to the ocean and take 300 pictures of waves, go to the Rockies and it is a hundred mountain peaks. Go to the forest and it’s the bears.
