I was in Bellevue, and heard a racket. I looked up to see this hawk (lower left corner)being chased by a bunch of Ravens.

pic of day.

Our little humming birds are as active as ever.
Sitting on the portch, they kind of remind me of Joe when he was about 9... zoom zoom... hyper little guys!

Had Babe (our yearling that was bald) come in with a buck. We think he is Shiner, the one that had a swollen black eye last fall.
He is turning into a fine looking buck!

The Rhodies are sure happy right now!

When I was in Bellevue I looked around and counted 11 cranes in my view.(there were 2 more @ Overlake Hospital, to the right, that I could not fit in the pic)
I guess that is why they call it the city of cranes.

I was over at Joe and Caraisha's and found this rufous sided towhee nest on the ground in the area I was cleaning up brush. Oops hopfully I did not disturb it too much. Guess brush cleaning in the yard is going to have to wait a bit...
There were several rufous sided towhee hanging around the back yard.

Here is another shot of mamma with her new fawn. If you look closely you can see her tounge cleaning her little one.
Have not seen the fawn again, but have seen momma several times in different areas of our property grazing by herself.
Did a bit of internet research. Evidently the fawn will stay in one location for about 2 weeks, and mom will stop by about every 4 hours for feeding and to let the little one releive it's self. (momma cleans up after the fawn to keep the smells of the newborn at bay, so preditors will not smell the newborn)

Had this momma deer come thru with her brand new baby! I was shocked to see a deer about the same size as my dogs!
I think this is the same mom of the deer that lost it's fur last year. (Carol's peeping tom)

Here is the same shot zoomed in on the baby.

It looks wet in the pic, it has been raining real hard all day today. The baby was running, so it isn't THAT new of a birth... but it does make one think... how long after birth do they run?? The night before we saw last years baby in the yard, and every time I looked out she was still in the same area of the yard, until mom left with the little one...

Some of Suzi's bulbs came up.

Probably the last time we will see Mt Rainier for awhile... rain and clouds are here now and expected to stay all week...
This was taken from Totem Lake.

We have water issues in the crawlspace in the house we are renting to Joe. Our sump pumps have failed, and the french drain the previous owners put in is clogged up... so we decided to add some dirt near the house to attempt to have the water flow away from the foundation... We found some nice dirt for free 1/2 way between our house and Joe's...
We had him load 2 scoops into our truck.

Hopefully we got enough dirt, we may go back for more?? We are going to put lawn in where the gravel is in the yard. Needing to weed a yard is not a good idea for a rental!

Our baby deer came by. Her hair is coming back in nicely. Just in time for the warm weather...

She has a bit of a skunk stripe on her back still.

A serious moment for Ginger... it was time for the empty peanut butter jar!

This little humming bird is sitting on the phone lines to our house.