Fawns and flowers

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It’s been hot (for here), and we need rain in the Hollow. As you can see in some of the river pics, it’s rained all around us; we’ve had thunder and wind, but my gauge recorded only 0.07″ of rain in the last week.

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I’ve been seeing fawns more often, but I’ve also seen several does without fawns this year. Since I’m pretty sure some of them were pregnant earlier, I am guessing it was a hard spring. Not only does it seem there are fewer fawns, no one in the Hollow has seen baby turkeys this year, although usually I see them regularly when I ramble, and the hens bring them to eat in the meadow. This year I see hens and toms but no babies.

Here are some of the fawns I see. Several are of the same fawn. It must stay in the woods near the house, because the doe and fawn go through the yard often and usually show up to eat. The ones at a distance are a doe with twins.

Twins

Twins

I enjoy watching the “neighbor” fawn investigate the other critters…

including me!

And now for the flowers in the title:

Common Milkweed Asclepias syriaca

Queen Anne’s Lace Daucus carota

Spotted Knapweed Centaurea stoebe

Shasta Daisy Leucanthemum maximum

Common Cat’s-Ear Hypochaeris radicata

Daisy Fleabane Erigeron strigosus

Scarlet Beebalm Monarda didyma

Shrubby St. John’s-Wort Hypericum prolificum

Common Selfheal Prunella vulgaris

Carolina Horsenettle Solanum carolinens

Black-eyed Susan Rudbeckia hirta

Oakleaf Hydrangea Hydrangea quercifolia

White Wood Aster Eurybia divaricata

White Avens Geum canadense

Red Clover Trifolium pratense

Naked-flowered Tick-Trefoil Hylodesmum nudiflorum

Let me remind you that I used iNaturalist.org to try to identify these flowers as best I could and welcome any corrections. Thanks. And thanks, too, for the rain that began to fall as I was writing this (a whopping 0.04″ so far!). Who knows? The next post may be about all the rain! And then there might be mushrooms!

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