Noticing the year 07/01/08 -- Oh dear!
Jul. 1st, 2008 01:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
urbpanAs I was coming home for lunch to walk the dogs I saw a deer in Boston. I was on the Jamaicaway, and the deer was in Olmsted Park by Leverett pond. It was an adult with no antlers, and it was running in an apparent panic.
This is a first for me; I get to add white-tailed deer to my catalog of Boston wildlife. I knew that they were often seen at the Boston Nature Center, but this is my first time seeing one in Boston. This is a touch closer to The City, about three miles from Kenmore Square. (In the past I've joked about the encroachment of deer into cities by saying that I don't expect to see deer in Kenmore Square, but in some outer city parks. Kenmore Square, in case you don't know, is famous as the location of the Citgo sign you can see on televised Red Sox games.) I'm sure this deer was outside of its normal range and I won't be shocked if I see its carcass in the middle of the J-way on the way back to work. But I consider today a landmark of a kind--my first Boston deer.
(You may remember my first urban deer from my trip to the Pacific Northwest.)
This is a first for me; I get to add white-tailed deer to my catalog of Boston wildlife. I knew that they were often seen at the Boston Nature Center, but this is my first time seeing one in Boston. This is a touch closer to The City, about three miles from Kenmore Square. (In the past I've joked about the encroachment of deer into cities by saying that I don't expect to see deer in Kenmore Square, but in some outer city parks. Kenmore Square, in case you don't know, is famous as the location of the Citgo sign you can see on televised Red Sox games.) I'm sure this deer was outside of its normal range and I won't be shocked if I see its carcass in the middle of the J-way on the way back to work. But I consider today a landmark of a kind--my first Boston deer.
(You may remember my first urban deer from my trip to the Pacific Northwest.)
