Hot summer weather is here

It's getting pretty hot, but the animals are just as active as usual. In this post we have this year's crop of fawns with a MOVIE included. And we also spotted a fox (last picture).


Here are three amigos in the backyard. It's a set of twins, and a (suspected) third fawn from another doe.

There's always something to browse upon in the big salad bar we call the backyard.

The water feature is going to be more and more attractive as the summer heat ratchets upward.

There's quite a bit of biodiversity even in the "manicured" portions of the yard. These three fawns spent an entire afternoon munching/resting/munching in the yard.

The does will leave their fawns for hours at a time while they are out foraging in more dangerous areas. I thought that young fawns only drank milk. I was mistaken. These ones were eating a lot of grasses, unless they were resting in the shade.

They were right outside our dining room window, and they could care less that we were snapping pictures. Their mom would not have acted so tame. A lesson for the fawns to learn.

Can't eat all the time, need some resting time also.

A special treat: Pat switched on movie mode and caught the fawns eating in the early evening.

Also this morning (Saturday July 2nd) we had a rare daytime visit from a fox. It was heading towards an area between us and our side neighbor where I've seen rabbits coming in and out.

Now we're watching for the fox to head in the opposite direction with a rabbit in its mouth! Maybe that picture will be in the next posting. Happy 4th of July!