Well, I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden. ~Doris Day
Spring is a time for baby animals. So it’s a great time to check out the zoos and animal parks to see the babies born each year. Here on the farm, it’s a great time to take a walk and stumble over a few babies in the hay field grasses. Deer have their fawns in the spring when the little ones have the best chance of survival with the lush spring grass and enough time to grow bigger and stronger before the hard months of winter roll around again. When the fawns are first born, they can’t keep up with mama while she finds food during the day. So mama hides her baby out in tall grass where they stay curled up and barely move until she returns. Cows often do this too. Nature has made the babies not have any scent to attract predators. That includes dogs. So Frankie can’t sniff out these little fellows the way he sniffs out moles.
However, at times when I’m walking in the spring, I will see a little fawn curled up in his little grass nest. I found one on Saturday morning. The one in the picture up top. He had to be only a few days old since he was so very small. I walked right up to him with Frankie on a leash, but I saw the fawn first and turned Frankie in a different direction before he saw the fawn. After I took Frankie back to the house, I went back to take a picture. The little guy hadn’t moved a muscle. Well, he might have twitched an ear or blinked an eyelid, but not while I was taking his picture. He simply continued to do his best to be invisible. I stumbled across the other little fawn a year or so ago. Again in a hay field. Again being as still and quiet as can be. This one, as you can tell, is bigger, having already grown a little. Sometimes when the fawns get this big, they will move. But this one did not and I got my picture.
Spring is baby animal time. All kinds of animals get their start in the spring from puppies to calves to chicks. All so cute and “aww’ worthy. These spring babies are a sign that the world the Lord made keeps spinning and nature keeps blessing us with beauty and joy.
So like Doris Day in the quote above, I find beauty everywhere. I hope you do too. Last night the lightning bugs were coming up out of the tall hay field grass next to the house and blinking on and off as the moon and stars lit up the sky above. On my walk today I saw flowers and butterflies and birds. Indeed, beauty and blessings all around in the spring.
What baby animals have you seen that make you go “aww?”
