Barnett 2005 Greetings, page 3
Summer

This year we had two does frequenting our back yard. One doe had one fawn, and the other had two. Sometimes there would be members from last year's brood hanging around with them. But very often, we would see two fawns hiding under our evergreens, waiting for their mom to return.

Seeing a flock of wild turkeys crossing our back yard is a sight we see infrequently. And if deer are hard to photograph because of skittishness, turkeys are worse!
While some critters are welcome in our yard, we were forced to give a change-of-address to a few others. We tried to get rid of a bumper crop of deer flies, but could only reduce their numbers slightly by flailing about when outdoors. We watched the fawns romp about one day. We first thought they were just playing -- until we saw their mom up close, covered with the pesky flies.
Not much new was added to our yard this year -- it was a maintenance year, with plenty of maintenance needed! We did add a hundred tons of rocks along the river bank for added protection against erosion and to replace the stones removed by the ice during the spring breakup. Sometimes the near-shore ice encases the smaller stones and then carries a few of them downstream when the currents pull (or the floods lift) the pack ice from the river's margins.
We just can't seem to get enough rocks!