Hubby and I worked hard in our pond, yard and garden on Saturday and were enjoying a relaxing Sunday afternoon being “trapped” inside by thunder and lightning storms in the area. I was sitting in my favorite chair by the east windows in our living room, reading and watching TV, when something moving outside those windows caught my attention. One of this year’s fawns was approaching a flower bed by my patio where I grow the plants and flowers that “deer don’t eat”. What I have discovered is that the fawns don’t know what deer don’t eat and must taste and try everything at least once. This spring I have found tops eaten off of plants that deer have never touched before. I had found the outside edges of this plant munched on earlier this week and asked hubby to spray the area with Bobex (a horrible smelling liquid that deters deer from eating the plants you spray it on). It was amusing to watch this fawn start to nibble on this plant and then sort of spit and stick out his tongue. You could almost read his thoughts —- “this plant tasted much better on Thursday!”.
I ran and got my camera — and this photo’s poor quality is due to the fact that I was photographing the fawn through a not-so-clean window. And no, I did not zoom this photo — that’s how close he was to the house. His nose has just been pulled back from the funny smelling plant and he seems to be staring at it accusingly. So, perhaps now he knows this is one of the plants that deer don’t eat.
And on the other side of the house the fish in our pond were in what I called before “crazy fish” mode. Swimming in circles, darting around the plants and through the falls, and swimming about as fast as I think they probably can swim. We do have a hatch of very tiny, almost invisible, fish in the pond from an earlier spawning and if hubby is correct in that this circular swimming and chasing of one fish in particular is spawning behavior — well, there are more to come.
