Colorado: Spring Creek Road: Curious Mule Doe

This area is private land and no hunting is allowed until you've driven several miles farther into public lands. This doe and

about two dozen other clever mule deer never leave the ranch during hunting season. Smart girl, smart deer!

Textbook lighting and focus. It has a very familiar feel, but it's still a great shot.

Stay on the ranch and starve or leave it and get shot down. Now there are some great choices. Kinda sounds like the reality that has made the population of Wyoming slightly less than that of Cony Island.

 

Whatever. In any case, this is a very nice capture of very elusive animal. Elusive, that is, if sticking one's nose against the window of a meeting room to see what's going on inside can count as elusive. Still, it's a nice capture.

The deer were grazing on the succulent hay fields and escaping the hunters as well. My wife just thought this one was a bit thin looking. Perhaps she had just found the ranch and hadn't settled in yet. She was, as much as we could tell, alone. The next nearest doe was about 500 yards away.