Oh, LOOK At the Deer- Aren’t They Cute?

July 17th, 2007 category: Real Estate News

Deer are part of the North Fork, Long Island landscape. The proliferation of this hooved species has provided all of us with more than a glimpse of nature at its finest.

As a community filled with woods, and dotted with green lawns, locating a deer is not challenging. Maneuvering at dusk down windy roads can be compared to the dunk machine at the office picnic- waiting for that one “hit”, while the senses are maxed anticipating it, and dreading it.

I don’t like it. Don’t misunderstand- I enjoy nature. But what I am observing on the North Fork is a bit unsettling- our deer, when we come into view, don’t gracefully disappear into the underbrush. While I’m certain that they used to, they don’t now. Rather, they remain still, looking, and waiting. For a handout?

My neighbor, Gladys, doesn’t put out lovely flowers anymore. Not a one. The deer, in their eagerness to get to know the neighbors, happily welcome themselves to all colorful edibles, with nary a thought that perhaps this isn’t FOOD, this is decoration. While we ourselves put the colorful decorations as close to the front door as possible, in order to discourage these visitors, the closer we put them, the closer the deer get. I guess it’s a simple equation, but I repeat: I don’t like it.

I would like to see the deer proliferate. What I would like to NOT see are hand fed wild animals. In addition to the tics, the nuisance that they present is a danger to themselves. Not all people are the way that I am, or you might be. There are sinister people who REALLY don’t like them, and in their zeal to play the hunter, basically shoot these creatures in much the same way that the saying goes- fish in a barrel.

I look forward to the day where seeing a majestic herd of deer is accomplished with many “shhhhh” sounds, silencing the human element, so that they don’t hear me, because if they do, they’ll run away in a whoosh of grace. For now, they just look at me, and I at them- mutual curiosity, but better left to nature.

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