The Case of the Missing Bird Food and Deerly Beloved

One of the watershed events of the last couple of weeks was Helen getting her bird feeders put up in the yard. And since we are not cursed by squirrels in this part of the city, she has started using a seed mix that has peanuts mixed in with it.

There has been some traffic to the feeders, but we noticed that one feeder has emptied out pretty quickly. Since a lot of larger birds have been landing on it we though that maybe the seed was being knocked to the ground - but no sign of that.

The case was solved this morning - Helen looked out the window in time to see a deer feeding at the feeder. The picture was taken through the window so not the greatest but here it is:



Since there was a fairly large group in the yard - I got the video camera but only got a few seconds until the battery died! Click the arrow at the bottom left of the image to run the film.