A mama deer.

Remember the mama deer who came to visit us last year?

We think she has returned. (Or maybe it is one of her deer mama friends.)

Each night, for the last two weeks, a mama deer comes to munch on the grass in our neighbor's yard or snatch up some of the fallen berries from our mulberry tree.

We've started to expect her around dusk each night. As soon as we hear the dogs begin to bark, one of us will rush outside to see if mama deer has come for her nightly visit.

She'll hang around for a few minutes - until the dogs barking or the naked boy fresh from the tub scares her off.