Sunday, November 4, 2007

Deer

Murrysville is what is called a rural residential community. What that means is no sidewalks and very few streetlights (except on the main drags). It also means that we often have wildlife in our yard -- turkeys, deer, many types of birds; I'm sure that possums and raccoons are around, too, but we don't see them too often.

Lately we've been visited by an old Grandpa Buck -- just one spindly looking antler, gray muzzle. It will hang out under our apple tree and eat the apples on the ground. This morning there was a beautiful big doe visiting the apple tree. We watched her for about a minute, then she took off running... followed by a perfect 8 point buck from out of the pine trees.