Bambis Are Back

This morning The Old Lady spotted the Bambis in the driveway.  I stepped out to take pictures.  This is early in the year for them to be back.  During the winter they move down the hill towards the lake to where the snow isn't as deep. (We are about 1100ft higher than Lake Superior and get a lot of lake effect snow during the winter.) This looks like it could be the same group that was around last fall (I did a post on the Bambis  last fall), but they seem to have picked up a small straggler. The smallest one wasn't around last fall.

 After I took a couple pictures, they started moving away down the driveway.

 Then they stopped and looked back at me.  We had a Mexican Standoff for several minutes.  The one in front facing me might be a young buck.  It stamped its feet a number of times and may have snorted at me.

After awhile they jumped the snowbank and went up on the hill.  The pictures don't show it well, but the snow is mostly gone around the trees on the hill.

Bambis

Had some visitors yesterday.  These two fawns and their mother.  I didn't get any pictures of the doe as when I saw them, she had moved to where there were trees between me and her.  She spent most of the time standing guard while the fawns ate.  Took these pictures through the living room window.

Looks like this summer's fawn, might be a young buck.

Close-up on the one I think is a young buck.

Fawn eating Canadian thistle, that they can eat all they want.  The Old Lady gets pissed when they eat her flowers.