Prowler in the backyard

[Sylvia du Toit]

Well spotted

[katy]

Oh wow! What a terrific catch!

[Mary Siegle]

What a wonderful sight. Great catch there.

[Issi Bannerman]

Aw. What a lovely sight to behold. I hope he sticks to the grass though and doesn't eat your flowers.

[Susan Wakely]

Lovely sighting.

[haskar]

Well caught. Lovely visitor.

[Jennie B.]

great capture, hope he's a mild mannered visitor and stays away from your garden

[FBailey]

Lucky you! Hope she comes back, I'd be waiting for her

[Wylie]

now that's special. I hope it has good manners.

[Margaret Brown]

Well caught, how nice to get a visitor like this!

[JackieR]

I expect she's a pest, but oh how wonderful a visitor!!

[Henk-Jan]

So cute! I like the colorful flowers in the foreground

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Natural lawnmower or garden defoliator! Good shot!

[Tunia McClure]

They aren't supposed to like zinnias so maybe she'll stick to the grass.

[Pyrrhula]

Wow. Great capture of this visitor. Hope it did n`t damage you garden

[Cazzi]

Wow! I find this amazing that these animals just wander into your garden. Is it a deer?

[summerfield]

when they get used to getting food from your backyard, they will come back again and again and sometimes they can be aggressive when they come "knocking" on the kitchen door. i live in the city and once in a house with a small backyard; a deer came to the backyard and when it saw me by the door, it approached and made noises as if begging for food. they're supposed to run away from humans but that one didn't. however, i didn't want my neighbours to have any venison ideas so the humane society was promptly called. hope this one didn't destroy/eat the plants.

[GaryW]

Love that you see her through the plants.

[Kathy]

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Thanks for all your comments. It's nice to see wild life, but they are wild and don't repsect boundaries. There were actually 5 of them in all, but four had wandered on when I got this photo. I went out to see if I could get a better shot and they all took off.

@tunia Good to know about the zinnias Tunia. I have put 2+2 together today. A friend of mine who lives down the road (same side of the road about 4 houses) posted that deer had eaten all her hostas. Since I hadn't seen any here I didn't think anything about it. However my hostas are down the to the ground and I had been thinking that was curious. I guess these guys might have been munching on them, although not that night.
@summerfield Yikes! Vikki. I hope they don't come any closer that they were.

[Tom]

Wonderful focus on the eye

[Kathy]

@tosee I'll say thank you, then say it was totally luck. I was shooting through the windows and trying to get the focus right and expecting it to bolt any minute.