Backyard Wildlife

No pictures for this post. Perhaps we need a night-vision camera set up outside. Last night the howling of coyotes woke us up. The howling was not unusual, but the proximity to the house was out of the ordinary. We peered through the window in time to see a coyote, startled by the reflection, bound off across the yard just feet from the house. The kittens hadn't come in for the evening yet, and I feared the worst. This morning, peering out the window again, this time to see any sign of the kittens, we spied three deer grazing in the exact same spot of the yard. They were 2 and 1 points and were sampling the flowers and trees under the cover of a heavy fog. When they meandered back down the hill to the thicket they call home, the kittens could finally come out of their overnight hiding spot. This balance between farm and wildlife will be a delicate one.