In The Hood

We have so many creatures around here, it's fun to drive into town and see the variety.   I was going into town recently when I spotted this group standing just inside a drive.   So I pulled over, just enough to get off the road, roll down the window and take a shot with my point and shoot.   I got two photos when suddenly a propane truck came barreling in behind me to go up that drive.   The deer scattered and I pulled out quickly to let him pass.   Slow down, people!    We have deer around here all the time, but not usually standing around in a clear spot during the daytime.

A couple weeks before, we were driving back home and I was pretty sure I saw a heron by the side of the road.   We are not on the coast, rather inland with no lakes or big rivers nearby.   So I thought, "Huh?"   On this day when I saw the deer, I saw the heron again as I drove further toward town.   Errrrrrr (that's the sound of me pulling over)

I was quite far away, standing behind my truck, being super stealthy.   But he/she knew I was there.   Every time I moved a little closer, he moved too.   Then he went into his own super stealth mode.   What the heck?   This is ranchland.

I found it pretty amusing.   A lady across the road came out to get her mail so I asked her about the heron.   She had no idea, but said they'd been hanging around and were known to eat the fish out of the stock tanks.    Are they lost?   I don't know.


I was sitting at my computer mid-morning today and heard the dogs barking.   Nothing new there, but I looked out to see what was going on.   There was a heron sitting down on one of our fences with the donkeys grazing nearby.   Trying again to be stealthy, I got my camera, then slowly slid the door open a little.   Zoey acknowledged me (no stealth with her) and the heron took off before I could get a shot.   


I'm on heron lookout now.   Very strange happenings in the hood.