– Bambi OR Venison –

I get home from doing some shopping and I am carrying the first load into the house.

As I reach the back porch/deck there is the Wife-Unit standing in the open door to the kitchen. Problem is she is not holding the door open for me. She is standing there with her camera in her hands trying to take photos of four visitors in the yard.

The deer were back!

Since early spring we had been seeing two does with fawns in and around the yards. We have seen the fawns grow.

I set what I had been carrying down in the kitchen and head upstairs for the camera. I didn’t hurry as I figured they would be gone by the time I got back outside.

WRONG!

I get back outside and snap a few photos.

I’m standing in the drive way and say to myself: “Damn, I should have grabbed the telephoto lens.”

I go back in the house and upstairs and get the telephoto lens and back downstairs I go. I change lenses and leave the “Normal Lens” on the dining room table and head for the back door.

I’m saying to myself that I am probably too late.

WRONG AGAIN!

All four deer are still almost in the same spot.

So I was able to snap off a few more photos.

It surprised the crap out of me that they stayed as long as they did with my being about seventy-five feet away from them.

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I like this photo.

“You can’t see me. I’m hiding behind this tree!”

Both the Wife-Unit and I strongly dislike what the deer have done to the vegetable and flowers gardens but they are great to watch. I would prefer to watch them through a scope on a deer rifle. The problem is they would most likely taste like an oak tree from feeding on acorns. We had a “bumper crop” of acorns this year. I’ve come close to landing on my butt several times from stepping on them and having them roll under my feet.

I don’t know who was more surprised, me or the deer, when I opened the back door one morning and there was a deer less than ten feet away making a meal out of a potted plant on the porch. The deer took of as if it was shot out of the barrel of a cannon and I almost had to take a pair of slacks to the cleaners.