We have lived in the same house in the country in Eastern Kentucky in a farming community for the last 26 years. We have worked consistently during that time to protect, preserve, and enjoy the wildlife around us. Over the years in our yard we have enjoyed visits from raccoons, skunks, wild turkeys, red and grey foxes, coyotes, opossums, rabbits, white tail deer, and untold bird species. We have seen a mother raccoon bring her litter of growing young to eat out of our cat feeder on the porch. We have seen an adult coyote cross our yard in the broad daylight. We have only missed seeing both young turkeys and white tail fawns raised in our yard a few years out of the 26. We have had flocks of turkeys in a hard winter come to eat the bird seed on our driveway. We have had as many as 5 fawns grow up in our yard in a single year. And who knows what species we have missed seeing because they passed by in the dark? We suspect that bobcats have regularly lived near us. We have had eastern screech owls perched on our porch railing as the darkness gathered. But today we had a rare visitor come by and I have the photos to prove it which were shot through the family room window. A pretty nice 5 point white tail buck made a visit to the driveway and spent several minutes eating bird seed on our driveway. It was pretty nice don't you think?
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| White Tail Buck Photo by Roger D. Hicks |
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| White Tail Buck Photo by Roger D. Hicks |
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| White Tail Buck Photo by Roger D. Hicks |
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| Snack Time Photo by Roger D. Hicks |
1 comment:
Cool. And it looks like a good size deer, too. Which makes me very curious. What could they be, the tenderloins? Two pounders?
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