Our yard is a mosaic of raised beds for vegetables, fruit trees and bushes, perennial gardens, and wild, native meadows and shrub thickets (bordered by a patch of woods). We grow food for ourselves and create habitats for wildlife from insects and spiders to deer and fox. Since we draw wild creatures to our yard, it is only fair that they sometimes venture into our food plots.
Lately, a doe has been wandering through around 6 in the morning (when we see her) and probably at other times. The leaves on our small peach tree are disappearing, a few more each day. Today I watched her amble under the spreading crabapple tree, eating a few fallen fruits as she went. Then she meandered over to the peach. She was eyeing me through the window as I was looking at her. She can browse other plants in our yard, but the peach is too far. I opened the window to shoo her away and she barely moved. Eventually she wandered away, munching leaves of a dogwood then asparagus fronds. She sniffed a pokeweed, but passed on that as they are poisonous. Finally, she plowed through the underbrush to the next yard.
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| Our resident doe advancing on the peach tree. |
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