Our daily dinner guest!
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
United States
August 4, 2016 12:43pm CST
This little lady shows up each and every evening, the same time daily. She is very cautious as she comes down the hill. She is our dinner guest every day!
My husband feeds the deer. We go through tons of deer corn that is purchased just for them. This little lady will stand at the top of the hill and wait for my husband to put out the corn.
She is extremely sensitive to her surrounds, and even a little wind blowing in her direction will scare her off. But on most evenings she ventures down and eats her corn one piece at a time, as dainty as can be. She takes her sweet time.
I was able to get a few photos of her - she knew I was watching. Unfortunately, I raised the camera up at the exact moment she looked up and that was it - off she went. I came inside and watched, she made her way back and finished the corn!
She is just one of many who we feed. If she gets here first and eats it all, then my husband puts our more for the others.
Photo is mine.
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@LadyDuck (502528)
• Italy
5 Aug 16
@AbbyGreenhill I have put the feeders on the edge of the woods in front of us, I am glad that they go poop in the woods.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
6 Aug 16
@LadyDuck It's bad enough when they pooped in the pool, but I was always waiting for them to poop on my head!
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
5 Aug 16
We stopped feeding the birds in summer, they can find their own meals...plus it stops them from pooping all around the pool!
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
5 Aug 16
maybe one day she will start bringing her kids, baby deer are adorable
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
5 Aug 16
We have two doe each with a fawn...they don't come out at the same time - one has an almost brand new fan and the other is a little older and bigger than Ruby. It's fun to watch them run!
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
6 Aug 16
@Jessicalynnt They usually hang with the moms for a few years...then the males take off and make new lives while the females hang in the same where they were born.
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
6 Aug 16
@AbbyGreenhill growing up we had a mamma who had twins every year, or every other or something. Often the older set would still be with her when the newest set appeared, was so stinking cute
@celticeagle (189880)
• Boise, Idaho
4 Aug 16
We are going to have some added to the usually amount we have come down from the foot hills here. Since we had this fire up by Lucky Peak I am sure there will be some distressed deer this year. We usually have a few come down but this year will be different.
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@celticeagle (189880)
• Boise, Idaho
5 Aug 16
@AbbyGreenhill ......Probably. New ones growing up too. Hope they are safe.
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
4 Aug 16
We don't know for sure how many are in the woods, but we can see the hoof prints and there are thousands of them - some huge ones so big bucks. But they don't come out during the day. We tell our deer just stay in our yard you'll be safe.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
5 Aug 16
Sometimes she comes with her mother, but the mom pushes her out of the way!
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@TheHorse (238317)
• Walnut Creek, California
4 Aug 16
I love deer. There are a lot of them on the road to Borges Ranch, where I take the kids I work with to pet the goats and sheep (and chickens). They're pretty tame there. I think many of the neighbors there do what you do. Some of the kids I work with had never seen a live deer before. I always slow down (if we're in my truck) so they can get a good look. Sometimes I get honked at, but not usually. People understand.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
4 Aug 16
Its hard to imagine people never seeing one but I know there are. Like when I lived in Hawaii and our landlord's teenage sun kept questioning me about snow - he had never seen it. He wanted to visit the mainland in winter to see it. That was in the early 70's I hope he got to see snow!
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@TheHorse (238317)
• Walnut Creek, California
4 Aug 16
@AbbyGreenhill I bet he has. Some of the kids I work with don't get that far from home.
@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
4 Aug 16
She may be shy but she knows the hand that feeds her!
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
4 Aug 16
@JohnRoberts - she sure does and she takes advantage of that.
@TheHorse - but what she doesn't know is the man feeding her hunted his entire life until we moved south - her distant cousins are hanging on the walls.
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@TheHorse (238317)
• Walnut Creek, California
4 Aug 16
@AbbyGreenhill Heh. Maybe she can sense that. "Why is a 3-D photo of great-great-uncle Filbert hanging on their wall?"
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
4 Aug 16
Living in the country the last 5 years has been an education for sure.
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@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
26 Feb 17
One thing I miss since we moved to the city is having the deer visit us. I used to enjoy photographing them. I'd have to do it with a zoom from a distance since like your deer they would run away if I got too close.
@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
26 Feb 17
@AbbyGreenhill Our herd used to have between four and six most of the time.
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
26 Feb 17
A few eveings ago we had a herd there were 10 or 12 - hard to count as they were raunning in circles. Never had that many at one time here before.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
4 Aug 16
She's trying to gain his trust, me not so much - I spook her.
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@amadeo (111937)
• United States
4 Aug 16
Join the club.You were able to get a photo of it.I did not by the time I get my cell phone he or she is gone.We have it just about every night
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
5 Aug 16
I know she takes a while to eat so I had lots of time to get the camera.
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
4 Aug 16
She lives in our woods and won't venture too far. I worry more about them crossing the road.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
4 Aug 16
There are a few more like her - we had two young bucks that hung out here for almost two years, but we haven't seen them for a while.
@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
5 Aug 16
She's lovely... how nice to be able to do that for the animals.... 
@nanette64 (20363)
• Fairfield, Texas
5 Aug 16
How cute! I haven't seen any deer at my place lately but I still have 18 raccoon's, 3 squirrels and a multitude of birds that get fed daily @AbbyGreenhill .
