Put some apples and carrots next to him. He might just need an energy boost.
I’ll try that this afternoon. He was still hanging in there when I was home at lunch, poor baby.
I just returned from a trip to the Big Island of Hawaii, and I saw some good stuff. Alas, I also saw a lot of non native species. It’s clearly a significant issue for the state.
Green sea turtle on the beach
Pacific golden-plover
Gold dust day gecko (not native, but really cool looking nonetheless)
On Friday we saw…. The first daffodil of 2026.
Worrying. The daffodil is the national flower of Wales - you expect them to be around for St David’s Day, March 1st. There were a lot more just a couple of days away from flowering.
Good luck with your deer, @Dung_Beetle
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Thank you! Last night when I got home, I followed @Si_Amigo’s suggestion to give food (some horse feed, because I didn’t have any carrots or apples). He barely moved when I left it. But this morning, my husband checked on the deer before he left and said he was standing! Standing oddly still, with head down, but yay! There’s still hope.
Good news, the deer is alive and ambulatory. Bad news, I think it’s got rabies. Textbook symptoms in the way it moves and has no fear of us. Husband is calling in professional help this morning.
Oh geeze! If it really does, you guys should get checked too…
I frequently feel like biting people, but only when I’m at work…
Hah!
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Final chapter: Husband called the wildlife officer, who found that the deer had a skull injury, not rabies. He said he sees this a lot in rut season. He then put the deer out of its misery and took the meat to be given to someone who can use it.
Poor buck.
That is sad to hear. 
but thanks for the update.
That makes sense and it is quite possibly how he got tangled up in the first place. I used to know a game warden and he said a surprising number of male deer die each year during rut. They kinda go a little insane. I was driving home at night about a week ago and came across a buck backed into a narrow edge strip of bushes and small trees between a building and the narrow road I was going up. He had a few does with him and squared off defensively as I edged slowly past him in my car. I breathed a sigh of relief when I got past - I did NOT want to tangle with that cat…err, deer.
You and your husband were caring to him, food, water, cut him free. Brought the officer who released him from a prolonged, agonizing death from thirst and starvation, if not predation. You were far kinder than nature and someone in need will also get nourishing meat. You’ve done good.
So another rail feet post, because I’m a little bit of a rail foot fetishist. But mostly it’s an excuse to post a picture of a Virginia Rail from yesterday, because it’s only the second time I’ve gotten one in focus in my life 
(it was in view for maybe twenty seconds, I got very lucky). the Virgina Rail (not really that great of a foot view, sorry fellow fetishists), a juvenile Common Gallinule just done scratching its head with that massive thing, a Sora on a stroll:
Well, that is true. I was hoping for a miracle, but I can settle for that.
These guys are so hard to get ANY pictures of … these are great!
And I was real happy to get photos of coot feet when the opportunity presented itself.
You put it much better than I could have.
j
Over the last week or two our local Egyptian geese have got the wanderlust. We’ve seen them several hundred metres away from their pond. There are four in this shot, both sides of the road, but I guess there are about a dozen strolling around.
It isn’t exactly safe behaviour, but then I don’t think these guys are the smartest of birds.
j
I was coming back from the barn last night around dusk, my four dogs dancing all around me, as they usually do… wait. I only have three dogs. We all stopped and looked at each other. One of the dogs was a young deer, who blushed and sidled off into the woods. 
