Do Deer Bite?

The reason I ask this, is the other awful hour of the morning I was up taking star photos, I noticed 3 very large looking deer across the street munching on something. Like my neighbors shrubbery, or maybe even the contents of their trash can…

Now it is a well known fact that animals — even humans– can sense when someone is staring at them from behind. And so they rather quickly stopped their munching and turned to look at me.

Now I have no way to judge the expression on a deer’s face, or it’s body language to know how malevolent they might be. So what I did was say, in a calm tone… “GO AWAY”.

It didn’t phase them. So we ignored each other for the rest of my time taking photos.

The next night, my security camera caught them, in the morning after sunrise, roaming on my lawn and inspecting my garden. So now I got a good look at them… One of them had horns, and was larger, the other two smaller ones, had no horns. I have no clue about deer anatomy or development, is this the mother and the baby deer? Or a guy and his two girls? In any case, I definitely do not want to come in close proximity with a horned animal.