Where is that camera when you need it??????
On the way to drop off kids at school today, we saw 8 (I counted them!) 8 mule deer.
My day is made.
And they were nowhere to be seen on the way home, so there was no use getting the camera. I guess I'm going to have to carry it around all the time. Since we have been in this house for 14 years, and those are the first time I've seen them, this could take quite a bit of patience. (Which, of course, you must never pray for.)
I think I am ahead. Connie has seen 6, Jack 2, Tami 8, and me 9.
Just a couple blocks from our house is a park, and the islands in the river are just a short swim, so the deer may live there in the winter. Or, if they don't mind a 4 or 5 block walk north of the park (and apparently they don't!), they can get out of town and live peacefully with just the coyotes, wolves, scorpions, rattlesnakes and whatnot.
Other wildlife around here that I have seen: coyotes, bull snake, black widows, scorpions, freshwater mussels and far too many seagulls, geese and ducks. I saw my first rattlesnake last fall on the Descutes River where it empties into the Columbia. I heard my first rattlesnake in northern California. It sounded like a 20 pound bumblebee.
posted by Marion @ 5:52 PM
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