Oh, deer

The Center is in a big compound that's mostly full of prairie grasses. It's surrounded by a chain link fence with an enormous metal gate that's closed after office hours (EK: "A compound? What is this, a cult?"). On Monday, 3 July, as I was leaving work, I saw this little family:

I'm rather tickled by how bold Wisconsin wildlife is. Deer and squirrels and Malaysia tend to hide in the jungle all the time so that even the brush of a squirrel spied outside a classroom window is occasion for "Eh tengok! Tupai! Tupai!". Although, who knows, if the trend in keeping chipmunks as exotic pets continues, they're probably going to escape eventually and set up shop as an invasive species... International students from Asia and Africa also tend to be distracted easily by bunnies on the lawn at campus.

Saw them again this morning and got some good shots of the fawns. Mum bounded across the driveway in front of my bike, fawns followed after I stopped and spent some time lurching back and forth to see if it was okay to cross while the scary human was there. They look like they've done some serious growing in the last two weeks - unfortunately there's not much in the picture to provide a sense of scale. Last time they were about the size of an Alsatian/German Shepherd dog. This time they were about the size of my bike.