Its hard to have a bad day when you see a deer when you are walking through the woods. Mark and I were out in the woods today after class taking pictures for our stories, when all of a sudden I looked up and saw a deer standing on a sand embankment in the middle of the creek. I didn’t believe my eyes. It was a large buck with an impressive set of antlers. I made a sound and the deer turned and looked right at us. It held our stare for 5, 10 seconds. What was it thinking? Did it know what we were? I’ll never know the answers to these questions, but I do know that he was cool with us playing in his yard. He went back to his business, and continued walking in the river, until he was out of sight. We both stood there for a second, still trapped in the moment. A minute later, we decided to try and track it through the woods. We walked down the river a little, but turned back when we realized that we weren’t going to find it again. This was the first time I had actually observed a deer in the crum. It was fascinating to just get a peek into a day in the life. He looked so comfortable in his surroundings.
ps. I do have a picture, ill get it up as soon as get my hands on a card reader
so cool! i have a card reader if you want to borrow it–let me know.
FYI, there are Wi-Fi cards out there…that can post photos to site wirelessly. Really cool.
no way! where can i find them??
http://www.eye.fi/
Get those pictures up! Or were they on that faulty memory card? We got some pictures of its footprints too – it was so cool, the buck just gracefully walked into the water and down the creek, it didn’t seem to mind us
That’s incredible!! I find my self stopping and staying completely still when I see them in the woods… something stops everything in my body.. maybe so I can sneak a few more seconds of fascination in before the deer startles and runs off. Sometimes I have to remind myself to breathe! They are so cool to watch! So graceful!