O Deer, O Deer....etc.....

Here's what I saw out my living room window this morning!  These beautiful creatures were eating up the leftovers of some pumpkins and squash I tossed out in the yard for them.   It's been a long, tough winter for the deer.  I have several squashes and a few pumpkins left from last year's garden that we didn't eat up yet.   I've had the squash in as cold a storage as I could get (an unheated room), but now they are a bit past prime for eating.   So, every once in a while I cut up a few and throw them out for the deer to nibble on.   They love it!   Poor things haven't got much else besides a few twigs and weeds to eat out there now.   But they look fairly healthy in spite of the long winter.   Maybe they spent some time in corn fields around here, gleaning what fell out of the combine during harvest.

Six of my new 'pets'