BOB. She was standing right in the middle of the road when I came around the curve - stayed for a second while I was hoping no car was coming then bolted for the fence and field beyond.
Great capture! Congratulations on it making it to there Top Twenty for the week!
White-tail deer are amazing jumpers. I've personally seen their jumping abilities with my own eyes, neither time did I have a camera. Once when I was a lineman, we were working out in the country and my partner and I were eating lunch sitting in our truck. We saw three deer cross the road in front of us strolling, in no hurry, they approached a 6-foot-high fence on the opposite side of the road that was around a pasture for horses. They walked right up to the fence. They stood there for a few moments and one by one they each jumped and cleared the fence from a standing start.
The other time we were at my father-in-law's house. The front of his house faced a pasture of a neighbor's that was 7 feet or so below road level. At the bottom of the embankment, the farmer had a fence. At the top of the embankment was a highway guardrail to keep cars from going down the embankment. I happened to be looking out the front window one day and saw a small herd of whitetails running toward the embankment. through the pasture. Then I briefly lost sight of them because of the embankment. I next saw them as they were flying through the air clearing not only the pasture fence but also the embankment and the guardrail. Quite impressive,
March 7th, 2023
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White-tail deer are amazing jumpers. I've personally seen their jumping abilities with my own eyes, neither time did I have a camera. Once when I was a lineman, we were working out in the country and my partner and I were eating lunch sitting in our truck. We saw three deer cross the road in front of us strolling, in no hurry, they approached a 6-foot-high fence on the opposite side of the road that was around a pasture for horses. They walked right up to the fence. They stood there for a few moments and one by one they each jumped and cleared the fence from a standing start.
The other time we were at my father-in-law's house. The front of his house faced a pasture of a neighbor's that was 7 feet or so below road level. At the bottom of the embankment, the farmer had a fence. At the top of the embankment was a highway guardrail to keep cars from going down the embankment. I happened to be looking out the front window one day and saw a small herd of whitetails running toward the embankment. through the pasture. Then I briefly lost sight of them because of the embankment. I next saw them as they were flying through the air clearing not only the pasture fence but also the embankment and the guardrail. Quite impressive,