I was coming home one afternoon in late October and slowed down as I passed the big utility field in the neighborhood. You never know what you will see there. This day I saw some deer hanging around the back of the field. I pulled my car over and got out with my camera. They were feeding far on the other side and after glancing at me they kept feeding. There were 5 of them staying close together.

A few minutes later they all stood at attention and were looking at something across the street. I glanced over and didn’t see anything but they kept staring over there.

Then I saw them coming up from behind my car. Five more deer went running across the field towards the other deer.

They greeted each other with sniffs.

When they finished sniffing they all started to walk to the other end of the field, towards the side street.

I was able to catch them running towards the street. Then I jumped back in my car and drove around the curve to where they would come out.

I pulled over and watched them all pile up near the side street. They didn’t pay attention to the great egret but a few saw me as I sat in my car.

They all slowly started to cross the street. I was just glad no cars were coming when they crossed.

Some of them went into the woods on the other side of the field and some re-crossed the street again and headed down towards the woods farther down the field. Once they were all out of the street and into the woods I headed home and was so glad I had left my camera in the car.