Yesterday morning while the better-half and I were making breakfast we saw 5 does in the back yard. They mostly stayed just off the grass in the woods but a couple of them crossed into the grass and then stripped yellowing leaves off the forsythia bushes. We watched them until finally all 5 went down into the gully.
Later, while eating breakfast, we saw them in the front yard. There’s a low spot just off in the woods where deer seem to like bedding down. We figured they were making their way over to that spot to take their morning nap.
It seems they were enjoying more than just what they found in the woods.
While normally I’m pretty upset when I discover a pot of pansies completely stripped, yesterday I just laughed. We oohed and ahhed over the deer so much we never noticed how ballsy one of them was to come right up to the house to enjoy a lovely salad.