We have fencing all around our small property, but the deer jump over even the tall fences.  I think the deer are flourishing in Cedar Mill and need more places to go to raise their young as the herds multiply.

D thinks that a mamma dear leaves her fawn here while she goes off elsewhere in search of food.  Sometimes we find the spotted fawn all over our yard, and he/she jumps like she’s on a pogo stick to hide in the wild rose and hawthorne near the creek. 

It’s very hard to hate the deer.  So far, they are more interested in eating shrubs than in eating what we grow in our garden.  In fact, they like cherry leaves more than the cherries themselves.  Right now, it looks like our cherry trees have earrings!