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June 14th I spotted a young buck and while driving home yesterday I spotted this doe alongside the road. She was kind enough to allow me a side profile picture before running off into the woods. Photo was taken with my cell phone. I'm leaning the best camera is the one you have with you. Each deer was spotted exactly one week apart. 30 Days Wild, Day 22.

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I've tucked the baby red winged blackbird's tiny, hollow boned features into my memory as I walk back to my SUV. I drive a short distance to another pond on the preserve before spying three deer. They're grazing grass along the embankment behind the pond. It's there I notice a  bat's aeronautics and the chorus of frogs sounding the evening. I'm watching the white tailed deer gently move into the woods. Before disappearing from my sight a doe takes one last look over her shoulder. It's as if she's tucked my five foot frame into her memory. Somewhere in the folds of darkness she's pulled away from my sight.

a doe and her fawn

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My husband and daughter were on a country road last year when they saw these two deer: a doe and her fawn. The mother crossed quickly into the woods but as you'll see the baby had... a little trouble finding the right place to jump.

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Upon our return home last night from town we saw these feathers close to the feeder. At first I was upset with our neighbors chihuahua for killing the bird. Then their kids came over and asked what I was doing and what did this? I couldn't answer them because I didn't know. One of them even suggested a cat but, my cat is a house cat with diabetes unable to go outside anymore. Our neighbors only have dogs or no pets. Could two birds have fought over the food leaving one dead or dying somewhere? I've never known two birds to fight so violently.

On a lighter note, I saw two deer in different places on the way home. The one standing next to the guardrail ready to jump at a given instant was a doe with black tipped ears and the sweetest face. I hope she waited until all the cars passed by before crossing the highway.

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Before this doe was seeking cover she was standing roadside just a few feet away from the shoulder eating some grass. Initially we had passed her and found she'd stayed in the same spot when we returned. I guess she wasn't startled because of all the cars passing along the highway. When we pulled to the shoulder I stood up through my sunroof and took an underexposed picture with my telephoto lens... I didn't have time to exchange for the proper lens with evening light dissipating into night. I had to shoot quick. 
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