Because you need it today:
From James Fallows:
Familiar early-summer scene in our back yard in DC:
Mother deer leaves very newest fawns—which have no smell to attract predators—to spend the day hiding under bushes just behind the house. Later on mother will return and disappear with the fawn. May be back tomorrow.
Stretching the legs, trying out the taste of the greenery.
Now back to lying down.
This is happening as close to the house as it looks.
And just to wrap this up, fawn nodding off until mother deer arrives, some hours from now.
Fawn has gotten used to sound of typing.
I know from experience that the mother deer is too wary to be photo’ed. Without our seeing, she’ll arrive, and vanish w/ the fawn.
and the end for real:
I was wrong!
– Mother deer strolled up just now;
– Fawn *bounded* down to where she was, and began nursing;
– They ambled off together, to the right. (DC people: toward Battery Kemble park.)
End for the day.
Sequel, Friday morning.
Originally tweeted by James Fallows (@JamesFallows) on June 22, 2022.