great-horned owl on the little league backstop

The deer mendacity beneath the owl is an odd element. I approached the deer in virtually full darkness. I used to be strolling straight for it, and acquired fairly shut. I made a tough proper flip once I noticed it, I used to be stunned she let me get so shut. She was sitting along with her legs tucked below her physique, like cats typically sit. (I’ve at all times equated this to how duck look after they float on a pond).

I walked across the deer, and requested: “The place are your infants?” There was a Doe with two fawns at that baseball subject loads recently, and I assumed it was the mom deer (I’m calling it “she” for this publish). I appeared round however didn’t see the fawns.

I went by way of one gate (I’d propped it open a couple of days in the past), then walked throughout the diamond, then out one other gate. I used to be on my approach residence once I head a loud squawk. At first I believed it was a fox, however quickly realized it was a feminine nice horned owl. They make a “mournful squawk” and I went again onto the diamond and located the owl. I took a couple of pics, and tried to get nearer. As I approached the owl flew away to a different fence. I acquired an image on the second fence, but it surely was additional away and fewer cinematic. I had somewhat headlamp and tried to shine it on the owl, but it surely did not doo a lot. Once I pointed into the darkness beneath the owl, the place the deer was sitting, I noticed two eyes reflecting again at me within the darkness. It was cute!

The owl was first seen on the smaller “little league” backstop fence, and it flew to the following fence, and this was on the usual measurement subject. Symbolically, this motion from one fence to a different implied graduating or rising up—transferring from the little child’s diamond to the grownup diamond. And the child’s subject is the place I’ve been seeing the fawns. 

A couple of days in the past I noticed the mom deer within the little league subject, and the 2 fawns had been caught exterior, unable to recover from the fence. I’ve seen the mom deer jump over the fence, and its very sleek. I opened an enormous gate (propping it open with an enormous rock, as I discussed above) and after that I’ve seen the infants on the subject with their mother.