Rob: Wildlife Explorer!

The best I could do was that wild turkey that used to hang out beneath my father’s back yard bird feeder.  (he was tres cool)  More recently I’ve had regular hawk sitings as there is one who lives right near the building I work in, and for a while he was hunting the pigeons that lived on our window ledge… violence in the workplace and all.

Today however, I managed to join the wildlife coolness in a new way.

I saw Deer baby!  A whole bunch of them!  They were walking single file across Maple Street in Bedford, MA… I’m pretty sure I’ve got that street name correct.  In a recent post I lamented my slow-on-the-draw camera phone skills so there was no way I was missing these bastards today!  They were in the woods before I got close enough to snap a picture, and the resulting image is garbage but, in the immortal words of The Yardbirds, Here ‘Tis:

See them?  See the deer?  Is that cool or what?

On a seemingly unrelated, but actually very related note, Jen and I are going to see Mary Lou Lord at the Plough and Stars tonight.  As stated in my profile I have a think for bringing my camera along to see local bands and snapping a few blurry, dark, crappy pictures.  I am bringing my camera tonight… which means that while I was fumbling with my camera phone to take a blurry piece of shit image of a couple of deer… my 5 megapixel, 10x zoom, Kodak digital camera was sitting on the seat next to me. 

I am such a schmuck.

But at least I am a schmuck who has finally seen wild deer.