Deere

My wife has posted these pics on her blog, but since they spend a good deal of time in and around the pond basin, I thought it would be good to chronicle it here as well. In these pics they have come to visit the apple tree and get some fruit from our back yard.

The first three are two bucks and a doe. Notice the late summer velvet on the antlers. They will rub that off on trees as rutting season begins. The second set are three fawns that were born just this spring. I saw them when they were really small, so they have put on quite a bit of growth over the summer: