Rex Trulove
The picture was taken on the west side of our house, from the bathroom window. The metal pole between the doe and the camera marks the edge of our yard and the deer is in the vacant lot between our place and the neighbor’s house in the background. She is also using the swath I just finished mowing. I’d just taken a bathroom break. Clearly, she is unconcerned by the smell of the mower, the handle of which is directly behind her. She is really more interested in what goodies were mowed down that she can easily get to.
Are not there other places to find food?
Deer eat grasses, weeds, tree and bush branches, and even bark. Around here, there is quite a bit of food for them to eat, except when we have an extremely snowy and long winter. Even then, the deer in town fare better than the ones in the forest because most people plant bushes and trees and flower beds and gardens, and they set up windbreaks that hold in available heat.