Here is a series of six pictures of the yearlings that came into our yard on Sunday. The deer are shy. If we had opened the door or a window, they would have run from the yard in less time that it takes to blink your eye. It would have been the same with the buck that was in our yard two years ago. The pictures of the deer in the yard now show the same clothesline pole and the same fences that were in the picture of the buck. Unfortunately, we were able to get pictures of only one of the two deer in the yard. The other pictures are of both deer in the park behind our home.

The deer come into the yards on a fairly regular basis. Generally it is not in daylight hours. According to our neighbor, they are frequently in the yards between 2:00 and 3:00 a.m. There is no way that we are going to be up to see that so I have to take the neighbor's word for it. They like to eat what is in the yards and gardens. In our case, in the fall, they are eating apples that have dropped from the trees. Both apple trees are in the garden behind the fence along which the deer is standing. You may be able to see the trunk of one.

In 2001 and 2002, a new bridge was built across the interstate highway that is to the northeast of where we live. The deer on both sides of the freeway walked around the incomplete bridge during construction. I assume that the deer on both sides of the freeway have now interbred.