update

Make that

I saw deer 9 times ttl
for a ttl of 69 deer

And this morning I saw the same herd that I saw yesterday morning, again, in the same place.

I was commenting that in all the time since I started working for this company I have seen only one rabbit out in the country. But I have seen any number of urban rabbits. There are/is one or more that live/s in the parking lot at work.

I was very interested in the videos that elephants took of tigers recently. Since it is very difficult to get close to tigers they decided to use elephants to deploy the cameras, hidden inside fake tree stumps and rocks. The elephants can get very close to the tigers without causing the tigers to shy away so they were trained to leave the cameras behind when they came across any place where there were cats.

Watching wild life first hand is for only a small percent of us. I am happy that I get to see as much as I do. We have bird feeders out on our back deck at home and it is so nice to see all the birds that come. Chickadee, several kinds of sparrow, bluejay, red pole, three kinds of woodpecker, magpies, now starlings, and once in a while several others.