Peek-a-boo!

Last week while sitting in the gazebo at The Puddle, I kept hearing an odd noise like a bleating.  I asked Mr P what the noise was and his reaction was "What noise?".  I waited until I heard it again and then said "There, that noise!".  His answer "A woodpecker".  I knew it wasn't a woodpecker and several minutes later a tiny fawn came up the bank from the cornfield behind our property.  It walked within five feet of where we were sitting, bleating for it's momma and scurried into the woods behind our house.  We could also hear another bleating sound coming from the direction the fawn was headed which sounded like the calls this one was making.

Yesterday, Mr P looked outside toward our garden and saw some movement.  There were two fawns bedded down and hidden underneath our potato plants in the garden.
 

 

 

 

 

He watched both of them moving around in the garden, chomping on the potato plants and then moving off into the woods.  There was no sighting of the momma of these little ones but I'm sure she was nearby and keeping an eye on them.
They are really small so obviously almost newborns and seemed skinny to me.  Mr. P assured me that for their age they both seemed normal in size.

We had another deer sighting that was amazing the day after we saw the lost fawn last week.  Again, we were sitting in the gazebo relaxing and a doe came up the same path that had been used by the fawn the night before.  What a shock to us when the doe stepped into The Puddle, keeping close to the bank where she could touch the bottom, and walked 3/4 of the way around The Puddle munching on lily pads.  It was quite a sight!  She leaned out into the water, snatched up a lily pad, giving a pull and munching all the while.  She seemed to bite off the long stem that attaches the lily pad to the roots once she got the lily pad all chewed up.
After she made a circut of 3/4 of the pond, she turned back the way she had come and made another pass back all the while sloshing in the water.  She didn't get all the way around to her original starting point when another doe came up from the creek towards her.  Their ears went back as they approached each other and the first doe even reared up on her hind feet in confrontation.  They seemed to come to an agreement that they could both be there and share the lily pads so the second doe stepped into the water and began seeking delicacies to munch.  We watched them for about 20-30 minutes until they both went out into the cornfield using the path they used to visit The Puddle.  They enjoyed the newly planted corn plants in the field for a while before drifting off.

It was warm again today but not realy unbearable.  It's overcast right now and rain storms hit most areas around us but we remaind dry for the present.
Tomorrow brings the downside of the workweek with the weekend in sight.  Here's hoping you had a good day today.