Yesterday, exiting our house, we startled some deer out of our back yard. I spotted one, and then 5 or 6 more bounced after it, I swear out of nowhere. They were pawing grass from under the pine trees, since the snow was not as deep there. I felt bad for scaring them. They looked thin.
Today, as I was knocking icicles off our gutters, I saw deer prints in the snow all the way up to our house. They'd been eating the ivy off of our walls, and from around the trunks of a couple of trees. Go, deer! They'd also pawed up the ivy and pachysandra that has been taking over my front walk and ate a bunch of that, too. Can I hope that they'll come back and eat more of it? It grew waaaaaay out of the beds, and is taking over my yard, and choking those poor trees.
Bunny rabbits appear to be eating the pine needles off the bottoms of the pine trees. They are excited that the snowfall has bent new branches down within their reach. You can see bunny hop prints leaving little holes in the snow in rings around all the pine trees.
A flock of robins came, and ate every remaining berry off the bushes in our yard. We've been making a lot of popcorn recently, and I toss the unpopped kernels out on the porch. The birdies eat them pretty quickly. I'm thinking of getting birdseed next time I'm at the store, even if it does lure in squirrels to pig out.
Our indoor kitties like sitting by our living room window, looking outside. They have been fascinated with icicles dripping. They show no inclination to want to go out when the door is open.
At night, the coyotes call back and forth to one another, mournful, yet musical. They sound like they are on opposite sides of the river, which was frozen over a couple of days ago, but has a channel melted through since. I hope they find a way over to one another again.
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