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5. The O.G. Returns
Late Summer, 2022 Harvest started and the growing season heat kept going strong. End of August, Pi returned. One morning I walked out onto the back deck, noticed a doe in the grapevines, assumed it was the Auntie, and ignored her. I made a little racket on the porch and saw the doe leaving out…
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4. Newcomers!
Almost immediately after Guinevere and her fawn vacated, the doe who was here in 2021 with Pi barreled onto the property with two fawns. I believe she’s Pi’s oldest daughter. This is the one I’m calling the Auntie. She was a little bigger than so-called Guinevere, super confident, and acted immediately at home here. Her…
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3. A Fawn is Born
This is the doe Guinevere’s arrival story, but I’m not yet going to explain her name. I believe she is one of the fawns that was here in 2021 with Pi and the Auntie. While it’s not always the case, a healthy doe can birth a fawn her first year, experiencing a successful rut at…
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2. The O.G. Arrives!
The photos above are what I’ve seen of the O.G.’s family so far (aka Pi’s family), mostly in 2021 and 2022. The does and fawns in the photos with red circles are the only ones on the property in 2021. The others came in 2022. In 2021, the first summer Pi and her fawns made…
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1. The Place
Here’s what happened. I’ve lived, gardened, and raised some fruit and some kids on a 1.5 acre piece of property on the Okanogan River for 26 years. For 23 of those years, there was certainly a deer here and there along the river, but no real encounters on the property. Through 2016 and 2017, this…
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