Babe in the wood.

It is never easy to catch these lovely little Fallow Fawns on camera - they are very timid - So I was thrilled when this little one did not run off. I was a fair distance away and used a big lens. Mum arrived - see my extra - her colour is known as melanistic - a fancy name for black I guess.
Today I received an e mail from an old school friend - she is not that old - we just go back a long way! She sent me this poem by Thomas Hardy. 


THE FALLOW DEER AT THE LONELY HOUSE



One without looks in tonight
   Through the curtain chink
From the sheet of glistening white;
One without looks in tonight
   As we sit and think
   By the fender-brink.
 
We do not discern those eyes
   Watching in the snow;
Lit by lamps of rosy dyes
We do not discern those eyes
   Wondering, aglow,
   Fourfooted, tiptoe.
 
Thomas Hardy