by Jan Fielden
Thursday evening driving around on the ranch we discovered we had visitors. The little deer that use to follow the herds, named Bambi, was back again. She has a limp so it is easy to know when it is her. She was so precious when she was little. Bambi would run with the Middle Herd and we were able to watch what all she did. She would lie down with the herd whenever they decided it was time to “lay up”. She would eat hay along with them and she explored the feeder even though we never saw for sure that she ate anything out of it. After several days, she would move on to either the Yearling Herd or the Back Herd.
Suddenly she disappeared for a long while and when she came back she brought a little deer with her! Right up to the back and side of the yard to show her baby off to us. They would stand still and let me walk to the fence in order to get a good picture of them. We have been hoping she had not gotten shot or hit by a car as we have not seen her for a long while again but have often wondered about her.
On Thursday evening she showed up again with her first little one who has grown a lot and a new little one. They were in the grove of trees down by the county road and when they saw us they stood rock still. The two little ones did everything their mother did…look at us, look away…look at us, etc. It was so pleasant to know that our Red Oak Ranch friend was still alive and still feels safe at the ranch.
