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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
The thing we need to be most careful about here are the deer on the road. Especially in the next few months when there will be all the new fawns.
I got a new baseball cap a few weeks ago. It has a set of LED bulbs in the visor portion of the cap. I use it at night when I have to take out the trash (all the better to check for snakes and lions). Anyway, it's really odd when I walk out with the light on, because I can see the eyes of the deer glowing. Their eyes are as bright as those of the feral cats (which I also often see).
Sometimes I see fifteen or more sets of eyes pointed in my direction. That's when I know for certain it is safe to wander around out there.
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I'm still wondering when N. Court Street here became Wildlife Central. Admittedly, there are a few patches of untouched land on one side of it, but they aren't that big, and N. Court is in the middle of town. I use it all the time to connect to the main road to go to work.
Anyway, a few weeks ago, I was coming toward home, and what I thought was a very ugly persian cat stopped right in front of the car. Of course I stopped, waiting on it to pass, but then it just turned and looked at me...between it's face and it's paddle shaped tail, I realized that it was no cat, it was a BEAVER. I might add that N. Court St. is halfway across town from the river....
Then a week later, broad daylight, a doe comes dancing across the same street right in front of me. I saw her in plenty of time to stop and admire as she pirouetted into a patch of very pretty green grass and just stood there and posed (not on her toes, in spite of the ballet analogy).