Doe a Deer, a Female Deer

There is nothing better than sitting back in a chair on our veranda and watching the wildlife. We have an amazing amount of birds now in our yard, and as you have recently seen, we have also had fox in the yard. In the evening hours my husband has had the privilege of seeing skunk too. As we sat there today, we had another visitor!

Are you looking at me?

This is a female Columbian Black Tailed Deer. This deer is in a sub-species of the Mule Deer. We were able to identify her by her tail. And what a beauty she is! I swear she is smiling at me in this next photo. Click on the photo and let me know if you agree!

I swear she is smiling at me!

We then watch as she moseyed up to the apple tree.

Eating my fruit trees!

It was just about then that we noted that she ate part of the flowing plum!

Where is my flowing plum?

It is still there it is just hard to see as most of the leaves were nibbled off!

Since moving here to the Foothills, we have discovered that the deer do not like things that have a strong odors. One of the things we do here to prevent the deer from eating certain plants is to spray with a repellent that is made from putrescent eggs. I have had the misfortune to be spraying this when an unexpected breeze came up and I was the unfortunate target of the mist!

Get out the deer repellent!

Cute as they are all deer can be destructive to the garden. So, most of the plants that we have put in are naturally deer resistant.

I love getting the photos of the critters up here to share with you! Maybe I will get lucky again with a different creature soon, and hopefully it will not be a mountain lion!