Our little yearling (babe) scared us yesterday. We were driving down the road, and there she was wandering aimlessly. I had to stop, but what scared us was the car behind us almost passed us. (we were in the truck, and I am sure the car did not see the deer) We tooted our horn, and Babe took off. whew!

Gotta love the pacific NW. Green stuff grows REALLY good here! Even had to weed the wood shed! The other side even had black berries growing in the eves of the shed!

Mamma brought her little fawn back by. It was nice Suzi finally got to see the little one...
Mamma has been spending most of her days in our yard, without the fawn... One time I was working in the garage, and I heard a loud noise, I half expected to see a horse in the yard, but it was momma, and she looked upset and was looking in the area where we think she is keeping the baby...

Slow but sure, someday we will be able to spend time at our own house. It was nice of Samanta to help! (she is laying where the dirt needs to be put.)
We are changing the elevation a bit, then we are going back to lawn. We pruned the Rhodies. The one on the left was higher than the gutters on the house, and it was blocking the one on the right. We are planning on cutting down the evergreen on the right.

This little squirrel was being real cute.

Got this little peek of the mountains.

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...