Friday was Two Day

This morning, Sunday June 26, there were two Goldfinches on our deck. We haven't been putting out bird seed for a while now but there they were hopping around on the floor of the deck picking up what they could that was leftover. They are such pretty birds, even the female is. So why were both the male and the female here? Do they have a family? Is it grown up already?
Actualy the Two that the title refers to are deer. On Friday while I was on my way home I debated, 'should I go this way the rest of the way home or that. I went with this and lo and behold there was a mother and her fawn. That is the first fawn that I have seen in a very very long time. I did not see them for very long, they were in the ditch and I did not see them till I was within fifty feet or so. At eighty km per how long does it take to travel fifty feet? Not long. I couldn't stop and even in that short time I could see that the mother had decided that it was time to head out of the open territory back into the cover of the trees. But the fawn was so cute! It was a darker colour than its mother and of course it had white spots lots of spots, very white spots; white enough that you wonder how it can loose itself from sight even in the trees.

Two to Go

So there were two deer right beside the road And they stayed there even when I stopped. I was sort of on the road but I turned off the motor to be able to use the binoculars without all that vibration. Right there only eighty feet away, and with 8X vision. Buggs were bugging the living daylights out of them, they could hardly carry on with their eating, stomping, shaking their heads, switching tails, and keeping one eye on me and on the traffic going by. Once they bounced off and I thought I lost them but they only bounced twice and settled down again. Maybe fifteen min and they went off down the road and turned into the trees out of sight.
Speaking of being lost, the huron has not been back. He only stayed a few days! But this morning I did have a little - a big lift. Closer to the city a huron flew over me, thirty feet up ...

Two Today

In all my refering to deer that I have seen I have not made referance to the dearest one. I saw her this morning as I have most every morning peacefully sleeping away whilest I get ready for another round with The Computer. I did see one of the four legged kind this morning while I was on my way to work. It was right beside the road though it did not stay around long. I have seen the Huron again. It did not show for quite a while but now since the rain I have seen it. Last night on my way home I stopped - without the binoculars - to watch it for a while. It was stalking prey, slowly carefully stepping through the water with its neck streatched out far in advance of the rest of it. It made four strikes while I was there, hope that it caught something, I was too far away to tell. It was there this morning too. I wonder if the rain did lure it back, I would say that indeed the level of water in the pond has risen back to where it was in the spring - four more days to go - earlier in the spring.
Spring is indeed almost over and how the time has flown. This is the biggest problem with an indoor job living this far north. By the time you get to appreciate the weather it is fall again. Oh but it is sooo nice while it is here!