A rustling sound
Tiny hoof beats across hill
Dark shadow in the rain
Yesterday I looked up at our backyard hill. Because of the south-facing steepness some of the snow has already disappeared. It was about like this last year when I first started catching signs of my morning visitors. I wondered if I’d see them again this year.
Silver dark shadow
Glimpse of white ghost in the trees
Morning visitor
That was the haiku I wrote for the visitors on the 25th of March last year. I had been seeing them every morning for almost two weeks. In other words, I had been seeing them since almost exactly a year ago. A year later I wondered if they’d be back.
It was raining this morning, a cold dreary rain that occasionally froze, the type of morning that tempts one to crawl back into bed and forget work. Book bag over my shoulder and coffee in my hand I stepped out of the house. I heard some rustling. I stopped and listened. There wasn’t a sound. I took two steps. I heard a flurry of hoof beats across the hill side. They stopped. I strained my eyes in the darkness. Nothing could be seen in the monochrome gray and silver besides trees and snow, patches of dark where leaves were exposed. I took another step. The deer must have been spooked and ran across in front of me. It was very big for a deer. I stopped and watched until it had melted into the woods again.
Yes, my morning visitors are back. Perhaps Spring is not too far behind them.
(See last year’s post)
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Awwww, sweet, yes, it sounds like they are indeed back.
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Looks like it. I’m guessing there’s something that gets exposed when the snow’s gone.
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The grass starts to gree first outside the tree line. The shade from the trees makes the snow there last longer. They probably came out to nibble.
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No, they,re still in the woods. The grass still has a couple of feet of snow on it but the woods on the hill are starting to clear. Maybe shrubs?
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Maybe, either way it’s usually the munchies that get them out.
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I’m sure. last year when they were coming down we had a spring snow storm. Bright and early (actually still dark at 5 or 5:30) they were down eating our ornamental shrubs.
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Shrubs are evil, they probably had it coming. At least yours haven’t started eating birds yet. I saw a youtube video of a deer eating a bird. Talk about freaky…
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A deer eating a bird? That is weird.
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You can google deer eats bird, it was on youtube so it should be easy tofind
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I may give it look later.
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you are a poet to?? seriously multi-talented –
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Thanks – I don’t know if you can call me a poet, but I play with poetry and song lyrics on occasion – Tuesday is usually poetry day here.
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