Speculation:
So, last night at around 11 p.m. I get back from a leisurely, chilly stroll around town.
I walk up the driveway marvelling at the little solar-charged lights I recently purchased to light the path and, on approaching the door, I decide to skip briefly around back of the house to make sure the three lights in the ground next to the barbeque survived the rain and wind last week. I take about ten paces around the backside of the house and see that, yes, all three rear lights are working. Just as I'm turning to go back inside, about 40 feet away near the edge of my property I hear a raucous in the trees. It stops... I glare... I see nothing in the darkness. A moment passes and another raucous ensues... rustling of trees, cracking of branches. And let's keep in mind, I'm quite a distance from the source of the sound and I can hear this noise *over* the rumble of the river across the road. To put it in context, if I was ambling angrily through the woods, that's roughly the amount of noise I would expect myself to make.
Anyway, I'm hoping it was a deer. We have apple trees at the top of the yard, so maybe it was out for a late-season feed, though deer are generally graceful and quiet.
Other speculations?
I walk up the driveway marvelling at the little solar-charged lights I recently purchased to light the path and, on approaching the door, I decide to skip briefly around back of the house to make sure the three lights in the ground next to the barbeque survived the rain and wind last week. I take about ten paces around the backside of the house and see that, yes, all three rear lights are working. Just as I'm turning to go back inside, about 40 feet away near the edge of my property I hear a raucous in the trees. It stops... I glare... I see nothing in the darkness. A moment passes and another raucous ensues... rustling of trees, cracking of branches. And let's keep in mind, I'm quite a distance from the source of the sound and I can hear this noise *over* the rumble of the river across the road. To put it in context, if I was ambling angrily through the woods, that's roughly the amount of noise I would expect myself to make.
Anyway, I'm hoping it was a deer. We have apple trees at the top of the yard, so maybe it was out for a late-season feed, though deer are generally graceful and quiet.
Other speculations?