It all started early one morning when we noticed a visitor breakfasting in the back yard.But wait! Look who else has arrived!A young buck enjoys our house special, succulent turf du jour.Are you looking at me, lady?Just a moment…do I hear something over there?I guess it’s nothing. If that lady is going to be taking pictures I better spruce up a bit.Meanwhile, another visitor approaches the buffet.Just one moment! Who are YOU?Why, no one important, sir!OK then. Just so it’s clear who’s the big buck around here.Yes sir, of course sir!Shhhhh! Just a word of warning, watch out for the big guy over there.Thanks for the tip!And another thing, you two youngsters need to show more respect!I swear, this younger generation has no idea. The things I had to put up with when I was a kid. Why I walked to school in blizzards, uphill both ways!I’ll just grab a quick snack to go…Need to find me a quiet place for a nap.Kids today…gotta keep em in line. Yep, always something….
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I’m glad you enjoyed it. We used to have baby deer triplets in the neighborhood, so cute. But about a month ago one got hit, so these two are now hanging out together.
Me either. I felt privileged to get to see the interaction. I figured there might be something between them when the older deer headed right toward the youngster.
The dialogue is great! I can imagine that truly was exactly how the conversation went.
I had to laugh at the ‘Why I walked to school in blizzards, uphill both ways!’ I worked with a gal from NY and anytime someone complained about the cold weather we were having here in FL, she would make the same comment. Cracked up the both of us displaced Yankees.
That’s so funny! Bruce’s Aunt (who lived to be 102) used to talk about how she and some of her siblings (there were something like 9 of them) rode a horse through the snow to school up in Minnesota.
Gorgeous photos and the deer’s conversations are too cute! I hope they all, but especially the buck, will be safe during hunting season. Thank you for sharing Dawn.
We don’t usually see them either, except, some years, around this time of year. When we FIRST moved here, maybe 1993 or so, we put out food for the deer and had a huge deer fight between several bucks. Then we found out about deer wasting disease and we haven’t fed them since, except what they pick up from under the bird feeders. Since then haven’t seen many bucks.
Great fun imagination! Made me smile lots. Goofy guy probably doesn’t have a clue that the two gals are still back there talking up a storm and that maybe they aren’t talking about him at all! 🙂 Ha.
Great first photo!! I had to look three times before I saw the deer.
We had to look three times before we saw the initial deer as well. And THEN I realized the second one was a buck. All summer we had the three amigos, three baby spotted deer….one of them got hit by a car about a month ago. 😦 So then we had the two of them growing up and always together…so I assumed when I saw two sets of legs it was just them again…I was so surprised to see the buck.
We felt lucky to have seen the interaction. It might SEEM like I’m always looking out the back windows, but really I probably miss a whole lot of stuff that’s going on out there!
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October 6, 2022 at 7:29 am
Beautiful tail of three. I really enjoyed your own little tale to go with it.
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October 8, 2022 at 5:26 pm
I’m glad you enjoyed it. We used to have baby deer triplets in the neighborhood, so cute. But about a month ago one got hit, so these two are now hanging out together.
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October 6, 2022 at 8:11 am
Great photos. I have never seen a deer do the submissive thing before.
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October 8, 2022 at 5:27 pm
Me either. I felt privileged to get to see the interaction. I figured there might be something between them when the older deer headed right toward the youngster.
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October 6, 2022 at 9:31 am
I love the final image.
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October 8, 2022 at 5:27 pm
Me too.
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October 6, 2022 at 11:57 am
I haven’t seen that submissive thing before either. Loved your narration along with the photos.
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October 8, 2022 at 5:27 pm
I’ve never seen it either. It was interesting, I was lucky to be looking out there (watching the first young deer) when it all unfolded.
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October 6, 2022 at 2:19 pm
The dialogue is great! I can imagine that truly was exactly how the conversation went.
I had to laugh at the ‘Why I walked to school in blizzards, uphill both ways!’ I worked with a gal from NY and anytime someone complained about the cold weather we were having here in FL, she would make the same comment. Cracked up the both of us displaced Yankees.
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October 8, 2022 at 5:30 pm
That’s so funny! Bruce’s Aunt (who lived to be 102) used to talk about how she and some of her siblings (there were something like 9 of them) rode a horse through the snow to school up in Minnesota.
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October 6, 2022 at 2:59 pm
I can almost hear Princess Katie fussing over these three visitors merrily prancing across her yard! She’d have never stood for it, I tell you!
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October 8, 2022 at 5:31 pm
She sure wouldn’t have. Back when she could see and hear and kept track of her back yard, she’d have been flinging herself against the windows.
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October 6, 2022 at 4:27 pm
I loved this photo collection and captions. A great morning uplift!
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October 8, 2022 at 5:31 pm
I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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October 6, 2022 at 7:15 pm
Gorgeous photos and the deer’s conversations are too cute! I hope they all, but especially the buck, will be safe during hunting season. Thank you for sharing Dawn.
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October 8, 2022 at 5:31 pm
I hope so too!
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October 7, 2022 at 5:56 am
Good looking deer! 🙂
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October 7, 2022 at 7:42 am
Well, he thought so!
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October 7, 2022 at 6:49 pm
Very creative! Thanks for sharing the photos and the amusing story. We don’t see too many bucks up here, funny how I usually see more downstate.
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October 8, 2022 at 5:33 pm
We don’t usually see them either, except, some years, around this time of year. When we FIRST moved here, maybe 1993 or so, we put out food for the deer and had a huge deer fight between several bucks. Then we found out about deer wasting disease and we haven’t fed them since, except what they pick up from under the bird feeders. Since then haven’t seen many bucks.
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October 8, 2022 at 1:49 am
Great fun imagination! Made me smile lots. Goofy guy probably doesn’t have a clue that the two gals are still back there talking up a storm and that maybe they aren’t talking about him at all! 🙂 Ha.
Great first photo!! I had to look three times before I saw the deer.
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October 8, 2022 at 5:34 pm
We had to look three times before we saw the initial deer as well. And THEN I realized the second one was a buck. All summer we had the three amigos, three baby spotted deer….one of them got hit by a car about a month ago. 😦 So then we had the two of them growing up and always together…so I assumed when I saw two sets of legs it was just them again…I was so surprised to see the buck.
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October 8, 2022 at 1:42 pm
I enjoyed your pictures and captions. I saw white-tailed deer in St. Andrews by-the-Sea recently.
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October 8, 2022 at 5:35 pm
I’m glad you enjoyed it. It’s always fun seeing deer…unless they’re running out in front of my car!
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October 9, 2022 at 5:56 am
Wow, what a story! It’s always so exciting to see a buck seems like such a rarity.
Plus, they are usually alone so what a special experience you had.
Such beautiful creatures.
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October 9, 2022 at 7:47 am
We felt lucky to have seen the interaction. It might SEEM like I’m always looking out the back windows, but really I probably miss a whole lot of stuff that’s going on out there!
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October 10, 2022 at 11:10 am
Love your tale!! That was such a wonderful commentary… And beautiful images. That young buck is very handsome.
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