A friend of the kids, a wonderful pianist, is graduating from high school and moving oversees with his family, so he decided to give a farewell concert on Sunday. A wonderful way to spend Father’s Day and our anniversary. On the way home, we saw a Mule deer doe crossing the gravel road. But she paused and looked back for just a fraction of second, enough for us to realize she was leaving a fawn behind. I looked on my side, and there by the side of the road at the edge of the ditch was the fawn hunkered down, still as a stone. We’ve come across dozens of White Tail fawns in the grass around our farm, but never a Mule fawn before. Photo by Davy.
The other week Laura checked all of our nest boxes to see how the swallows are doing. Some boxes had just eggs, others newly hatched chicks, and others a mixture of eggs and chicks. Photo by Laura.
A Canadian Tiger Swallowtail (I think), on one of the pots in front of house. Photo by Laura, at my request.
Duck family at Bonnyville, north of here. Laura came with me on an end-of-season greenhouse run, to find languishing treasures.
Laura found a stand of yellow lady’s slipper orchids (aka Moccasin flower) during one of her birding excursions around the farm the other week. Photo by Laura.
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Lovely photos. Those lady slipper orchids are fascinating! Never saw them before!
Also, I’m hoping to see at least one butterfly this summer, here in Northern New Jersey.
Marilyn
Thanks, Merillion, I’ll tell the kids!
The orchid is present in New Jersey as well, but usually in undisturbed woodland. We’re lucky to have some on and near our farm. I had seen it growing in the wild in and around NYC before I moved here, but only on hikes.