Great bird photos!!! Our former creek, now marsh, is so filled with silt that our resident heron can't live in our little valley any more...hardly any frogs due to all the silt in the marsh. An egret used to fly in, as though he/she was considering making this home, but the heron engaged the egret in great swooping aerial battles, often right outside my office window. I really miss the froggy chorus every evening!
Thursday, one of the deer, smelling sunflower seeds in a feeder affixed to the big glass in our front door to the deck, clomped up the steps onto the deck. She wasn't able to reach the hanging fuchsia basket, but spent some time peering right in the door and checking all the seed hulls on the mat. She couldn't reach the sunflower seed feeder affixed to the top of the glass. This is the first time one of the deer has come up onto the deck, so it was a real surprise. Unfortunately, it was early without much light, and impossible to use a flash because it would flare on the glass door. I've attached two photos of the doe on the deck and one of one of the does with twin fawns.