More Deer

Last week Alison woke up to what she says was a loud scratching sound at about 11:00 PM. She went to the window and looked out and saw a deer in our backyard eating bark off of our large maple tree. I thought, no way. We went outside the next day and there were large scrape marks on the side of the tree and a few chunks of bark on the ground.

For a time earlier in the spring, Kris had been telling me that there was something eating one of her hibiscuses. She thought it was probably a deer But I didn’t think there was any way a deer would just be roaming around our backyard looking for flowers to eat. Looks like she was right.

After watching for a bit, the deer took off, jumping over the broken fence of the neighbor behind us. Looks like we’ll have to maybe start deer-proofing things.