When I got home from work, getting out of my car I heard a rattling noise and looked over at the front yard. There about 20 feet from me, right in the middle of the walkway, was this big buck.
By the time I pulled my tablet (the closest camera) out, he’d already walked (casually, mind you, he’s not intimidated by we humans) out across the street.
He seemed to be nearly as tall as me, with a nice set of antlers, maybe six points each.
There’s a herd of maybe seven of them that live in the woods down back of the house. Sunday I was down there clearing trash, and they were criss-crossing the hill above and below me the whole time.
A sad followup, late last week one of the two bucks in the herd was hit by a car and killed a few doors up from here.