Deer & Hummer Return

Well this morning when the dogs got up to go outside I looked towards the salt block and to my excitement was Big Red along with several does & yearlings, but what surprised me the most was that he already had velvety antlers outside of his ears with 3 pts on each side it's only May 25th. As the day went on other came in which is nothing new but several were the other bucks that stay here with Big Red and they too had velvet outside of their ears, the rest are does & yearlings, they look very healthy. his is when I say spring is at Trinity because wildlife reappears after it being white since Nov. It won't be long before there are as many as 3-400 deer per day out back, in 4 days they have already licked half of the block away.

The hummers on the other hand came in slowly and were about a week later than usual, but hey are making up for it now as you can see in the photos, it's flying room only with a slight wait. The feeder in the photo holds 48oz and it took only 5 days for the humers to empty it, they are very hungry and busy, most of the time getting along but then other times they come in looking like anti-aircraft guns at the ready and will challenge anyone that comes near, even me and my camera. I've learned that unless I want to get swarmed by them not to wear red when taking photos of them.






The snow is almost completely gone from here yet there is still anywhere from no snow to about 3.5' of snow still on the road in places making for a very difficult travel in & out so I haven't done much of either but plan to go out tomorrow and survey everything, see how much the river has changed this year, it's alive and constantly changing as do the creeks and anything affected by lots of water.
We found our Paradise, hope you find your's too. Namaste'