You’re Not A Bird!

Sunday while I was in our bedroom, I saw her pass by the window.

 

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So I quickly grabbed my camera and headed to the dining room.

I caught her drinking from the birdbath in our front yard.

I had to take these pictures quickly through our dining room window.   I was surprised to see her in the front yard this early. Usually they wait until the sun has gone down to be in the front yard.

But the deer had been out earlier in the day.  I caught this one in the back yard down near the jungle earlier that day.

She popped out of the bamboo for a few minutes and then headed back in.

And I almost didn’t see her friend, hidden behind the Rose of Sharon shrubs.  I didn’t think much more about them until one of them showed up as the sun was setting to drink in the front yard.

She was beautiful in the sunlight.

And always cautious.

I never knew they drank out of our birdbath. But she knew exactly where she was going when she walked past the bedroom.

But soon she headed back around the side of the house. I went back to our guest bedroom to see if I could see her go back down the hill to the cover of the bamboo.

But when I got there, there were two more deer.  Now the quality of pictures from here out is not the best. I was shooting through not only glass, but screen and in very poor light.

I looked back up towards the front yard and she was still there. So that meant there were three deer in the garden at once.

And, as I looked out back towards the path down the hill I spotted our baby from this past spring by the sun dial.

So, there were two here, baby in back and the fourth still closer to the front yard. Four deer at once.

And then baby came back to join these two.

While Ms. Birdbath still hung out around the front.

Here you can see all four of them. Excuse  that bad picture. But on the left a little over half way up is Ms. Birdbsth.  On the lower right corner are the other three under the magnolia tree.

It was like she was the lookout.

And these three were just like a group of kids playing around.

But they too were always on the lookout.

Finally they all headed down, one by one, to the lower part of the garden.

Baby was the last to go.  And after they went down the hill Keith and I watched them for quite a while, until it was too dark to see them anymore and they went back into the safety of the bamboo.  It sure was a surprise to see four at once and to see we have a new “birdie” at the birdbath.