Yesterday was the first day in over two weeks when we didn't have at least 20 minutes of rain, and we've already had a thundershower this morning.
This has accomplished a couple of things:
- The grass that is usually turning brown by this time of year is lush and green and really tall.
- It is too wet to mow, or just about any other outdoor activity.
- It has also provided us with an excuse for spending literally hours each day watching the deer in our back yard.
For example, when they get wet, they will shake like a dog. They also spend several hours a day grooming themselves (or each other) like a house cat. They spend quite a bit of time taking naps, and even though the grass is a brilliant green and they are reddish brown with spots, they can lie down in less than a foot of grass and disappear.
We have wondered how they communicate. A website I checked says a doe calls her fawns with a sound like THIS. But we have never hear her make a sound. She usually comes to collect her kiddos just before dusk, and Honey thinks she communicates with them by a sort of semaphore. Mom flicks her tail in a certain way and the fawns look up and start heading her way. Then they all melt away into the woods.
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