ramblings of an optomistic spirit

04/02/2013

reminiscing .....my dear,deers !

Its blowing a gale and intermittently snowing and hailing here today. So with thoughts of changing my blog page round a bit. I have been looking through photo's. Those of you who were with me in our old rented inn, will remember our daily visitors. We now get a whole herd of them behind our new cottage garden and righlty so they are timid of humans. Unlike Doris and Bambi were....
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  1. BogamanMonday, February 04, 2013

    These are Red Deer, right. I notice in the one picture of the fawn, that it has faint spots on it, just barely visible. Our Whitetale Deer fawns have spots which are much more prominate.
    The deer do love the gardens;)

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    1. a breath of fresh airTuesday, February 05, 2013

      They are indeed red deer the fawn had spots and they faded as it got older, they loved eating everything I tried to grow and what they didn't eat the highland cattle did !
      We have a deer fence round this garden :-)

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  2. AnonymousMonday, February 04, 2013

    There is something very spiritual about having such nimble and dramatic creatures around you. I can remember walking the highlands and catching sight of deer just when I felt exhausted, it lifted my spirits, something I will never forget. Seeing these deer has reminded me.
    Thanks Annie

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    1. a breath of fresh airTuesday, February 05, 2013

      I agree Lisa something very spiritual, these two were oddly very tame and used to come up almost to the windows of the house. The deer have coe down off the hills for winter and it still takes my breath away to see a stag.

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  3. greenthumbMonday, February 04, 2013

    How wonderful for you all, such lovely creatures.

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  4. BogamanTuesday, February 05, 2013

    Annie, this off the subject of deer. I originally mentioned that I found your blog interesting because of your interests and your location. This is to fill you in about my ancestry. Most of my ancesters have been in america since the early 1700's. However, most came from Ireland and Scotland. On my mothers side the Bell line has been traced back to Taynuilt Scotland as early as 1650. They left Taynuilt and spent 20 years in nothern Irelan before coming to america. On my fathers side Hickey line came from county clare in Ireland. The Craig line has been traced back to Paisley Scotland around 1700 and possibly to the far north of Scotland before that around Kildonan and Helmsdale. We are still stuck in northern Virginia with the White line, however old docuements say that my oldest ancestor William White was born in Scotland. Geneology is a hobby of mine, but doesn't get my full attention as I seem to have to many interests at times. SXW

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  5. a breath of fresh airTuesday, February 05, 2013

    Gosh isn't it a small world. Taynuilt is about an hour south of us and we have driven through it often, do you know where abouts ?
    I don't actually know much about Geneology and only know as far back as my grandparents one set Yorkshire, England and another Southern Ireland ( where I also lived for 5 years ). I think researching geneology would involve a lot of patience of which I have very little.
    Annie

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    1. BogamanTuesday, February 05, 2013

      Since my Bell ancestors lived there over 300 years ago I imagine it would take some serious digging to find out where they lived. They were probably farmers, since that was what they did in northern Ireland and when they arrived in Virginia in the early 1700's. I got envolved about ten years ago as I became interested in where they came from what thier backgrounds and surroundings were like. I usually work on things in Dec. and Jan. in the middle of winter when my other interest seem to be froze out. Perhaps researching ancestry is more of an american thing since we are all transplants to this country from abroad. I would liken it to hunting mushrooms, which is another of my hobbies. SXW

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    2. a breath of fresh airWednesday, February 06, 2013

      It is popular over here just something that I haven't considered doing yet....hunting mushrooms, I would find that a bit scary there are so many that you can't eat. !
      I have done some food foraging courses in a previous job but none or mushrooms.

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    3. BogamanWednesday, February 06, 2013

      Not that scary if you know what your looking for. I seek them out in both the spring and fall as there are a lot of edible ones here. Everyones favorite is the Morel. Do Morels grow there?

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    4. a breath of fresh airThursday, February 07, 2013

      I had a quick look and yes they do http://highlandholidaycottages.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/morels-at-last.html

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  6. Sarah ShoesmithWednesday, February 06, 2013

    These are wonderful photos, Annie - how unusual to see such tame deer. I am pleased you now have deer fencing though - we've had such damage here, particularly to young fruit trees.

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    1. a breath of fresh airWednesday, February 06, 2013

      Thankyou, they were really tame we lived in the rented house almost a year and watched " bambi" obvious nickname grow it was lovely, Doris the mum often used to leave " bambi nestled in the long grass in our garden and go off....so we have loads of pics as you can imagine. Yes so a stock fence was round our current garden when we bought this cottage.

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  7. Art and SandThursday, February 07, 2013

    Your photos never cease to amaze me. I can't imagine deer in my area. We do get raccoons every once in awhile.

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  8. a breath of fresh airFriday, February 08, 2013

    Thanks for the comments re the pics, now there's something I have never seen a raccoon. ! No chance of spotting one over here, allegedly we have local badgers,pine martins and otters but we have not actually seen them yet ......

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  9. Travel With LuluFriday, February 08, 2013

    So gorgeous! Wonderful captures. Stay warm!

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  10. PlantWerkZTuesday, February 12, 2013

    Your deers are so cute and lovely. I think they enjoy there. PlantWerkz

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Thanks for dropping by.......I love reading your comments ♥
Annie.

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