It’s always an adventure living in the forest and some days it gets a little bit more wild than others. It is fawn season and one of our resident deer mamas has a pattern set to come to visit our neighbors and us at various times during the day. Now, at times, there is a baby that comes along and that is fun to see except when they nibble on those plants that we don’t want them to nibble on.
I had a beautiful lily growing and had been keeping up pretty well with spraying it with deterrent spray. Came out this morning to this.
Now I am not pointing any fingers but I am pretty sure I know who was grazing on the salad bar.
I walked down to the dock to change out the flag to a patriotic one (July 4th is just around the corner) and took a look in Chris’s kayak.
Do you see what I see? I mean his kayak is dirty but there in the middle is a pile of poo. We have some theories but I am still wondering what kind of balancing act occurred to allow the poo to be there just in the middle with nothing else disturbed… Makes you go “hmmm”, doesn’t it. I think bear but it would have been a squat on the dock and drop situation. Whatever, it is gross.
But then I was sitting on the back deck reading and a pileated woodpecker came by and before he flew too far away I got a shot of him. I love these guys.
So that’s what is happening in my yard. What’s going on in yours? Leave me a comment and let me know. There are only a few more days left to Comment for a Cause for VeDA – Vestibular Disorders Association.
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Leave a commentThe joy of nature! We’ve had baby geese and we do see deer. But the best thing is to see some sun!
The sun is absolutely THE best thing to see!
Wow – interesting about the boat situation… Maybe time for a security/wildlife camera????
We have a couple but just not aimed in the right direction. Weird, right?
Waiting patiently for the Shasta daisies to bloom.
And, the bear has been sited as very large. Not a good time to set out feeders.
Very true! I have taken my hummingbird feeders in at night but they can still come out during the day.
You have a “wildlife refuge” like we do. The poo in the kayak is a bit mindboggling though. A couple of years ago, we found a poo pile at the bottom of our deck steps. Thought it was a bear and still wondering how that happened.
This was one agile bear— it’s so baffling!
Oh funny. Yes, we can’t grow any lily plant here except the orange ditch lillies because the deer LOVE all the other pretty ones. Some years we get lucky and one or two bloom but most of the time they look just like yours. We’ve tried to give them away to other homes where they’d have a better chance, but so far everyone has the same deer problem.
And your poo…well….we have lots of critters too, and at one time something was enjoying their poo breaks on our deck, backed up right into the corner by the door. Bruce thought for awhile it was a neighborhood kid having fun…but we finally figured out it was a very large racoon. If I thought it was a bear I’d be freaking out!
It could be a raccoon but it is pretty big and bear like. It’s a mystery for now!
It’s mostly birds and iguanas in my backyard. There’s one bird in particular who like to walk around the edge of the fence and tease the dogs. It’s kinda funny.
Mysterious poop a great title for a book. Lol.
You have quite the nature center with all those animals. In my yard are squirrels, bunnies and feral cats and some animal that drops poop on occasion. Thankfully the bunnies have not yet discovered my broccoli plants.