We live surrounded by woods in southeastern Virginia, about an hour's drive from the Chesapeake Bay. We're so far from a main road that in those rare moments the domestic and wild inhabitants of our neighborhood go silent we can barely detect the hum of motor vehicles beyond the mile stretch of trees to the east.
Snow has been virtually nonexistent this winter. All that comes to mind is a ten-minute gift of light flurries swirling in the evening air about two weeks ago. None of it stuck. Maybe we need another month to get winter's full effect, as we did last year in early February. The first scene here captures a hardy Carolina chickadee perching on the branch of a crape myrtle as he enjoys the crisp sunny morning outside our front window.
Later in the day we see our rooster Big Red escorting his favorite hen, Hannah, on a brisk stroll along the front walk.
Ever the gentleman, Big Red maintains a polite distance from Hannah, giving her full reign of the sidewalk as he steps gingerly through the fresh snow.
Come summer, July 7, from our bedroom also facing south in the front of the house, we find a Whitetail neighbor enjoying a breakfast salad. I shot this picture before moving closer to the window, fearing she might see me and dart back into the trees.
She raises her head, perhaps detecting motion on the other side of the window, but senses no danger and soon returns to her morning munchies.
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Maybe two exceptions--my friend says they feed on her gardens quite a bit too.
You've sure got some nice views up there wherever you are. I wonder if the animals visit your home to look at the people locked up in the zoo?
That deer is so cute.
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That deer is so cute.
HUGGGGGGGGGGGG
Thank you for your lovely words and pictures.
Solitude pure!
R
Snow, chickens and deer!
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Lezlie
while up here in CT we get pounded with hurricanes and
freakish ice storms and lose our damn electricity & almost
start a revolt over that, and...
then..well, spring-like days...
(it is way way whacked up here)
these deers, we got em too.
i got bored one day and wandered into the woods
and frolicked with them . I can't afford a fancy digital camera,
though , so, Os is outta luck.
congrats on ep.
it was the hen on the sidewalk , i bet, that tipped the scales.
congrats
R
Another thing I miss about the U.S. deer! When I lived in Minnesota, at night, I never kept my eyes on the road, one eye on each ditch on either side of the road, they have that bad habit of jumping in front of headlights.....
~R~