Living in an aspen forest, we normally have deer hanging around our backyard in Wyoming. Most years they are does and fawns. We've had a few of those this year, there's a photo of twin fawns on the other DrC's website.
Our screened back porch has a TV, table and chairs where we eat most meals, and easy chairs too. The screening is dark brown plastic sun screen which makes it what hunters call a "blind." We see out perfectly, the deer can't see us. They sometimes get spooked when we talk, other times seem to ignore us.
What is unusual this year is the number of bucks we've had, all with respectable racks of antlers currently in velvet. This morning there were four within 20' of each other, just hanging out and taking it easy. That is about twice as many as we've normally had this summer.
We leave the forest wild, we long since gave up planting landscaping, so they can eat all they want and it's not a problem for us or for them. It's their natural food source and they neither over-graze it nor do it any lasting harm.
