Who I ‘almost’ ran into on the way home

I was coming home the other night and I was trying to be extra careful not to hit a deer. I heard on the news that this is mating season and that there will be more deer out. Seriously? How can there be more deer out that what we normally see? Nevertheless, I’m always watching and decided to kick my scouting skills up a notch. Well I almost got home and was literally 3/4 a mile from the farm and stopped on our gravel road. And who was there? A huge buck right in front of me and the doe was on the other side of the road. Now I had two problems. Problem # 1 was with having the doe on the left side of the road and not with the buck. I wasn’t sure if he was going to run back or if she was going to run to him and I was right in the middle of the two. And watching how he was acting, I think that he didn’t want this doe out of his sight.  Problem # 2 was that I was driving our electric car and when I stopped, there wasn’t any noise and the deer didn’t get scared.  At first I didn’t want to honk the horn because I didn’t want to spook the deer and have one of them hit the car. So I just kind of sat there and checked them out and they checked me out. I took a couple of pictures and was hoping that whatever they were going to do, they would just do it! And honestly it probably looked pretty funny! It looked like some crazy stare down competition or something between us. But after what seemed like hours…. (I’m sure it was only a couple of minutes 🙂 ) I decided to make the first move, I started to drive and of course no one moved because the car doesn’t make a sound. So then I blew the horn. And then I blew it some more. Well the buck came back to the middle of the road, looked at the doe and then ran back across the road into the ditch. Now the doe wasn’t as confident. She just kind of ran all over and then ended up in the neighbors field. So I don’t know if they stayed there for so long because the car was quiet or if they were just out proving that this was there part of the road. Who knows right? But in either case, I’ve got to add this spot to my ever growing areas to watch out for deer this fall. Below is the picture that I took from inside the car of the buck. It’s not the best, but I think it’s still kind of funny! Well it’s only funny because I didn’t hit him!!