The White-tailed Deer of Salado Creek

When I walked the Salado Creek Greenway on Friday, September 16, one of my encounters was with a small herd of maybe four or five white-tailed deer in the wetland just downstream of where the wildfire had burned five days earlier. On my return to the wetland area on Friday, November 18, I was pleasantly surprised to not only find the herd grazing in the same location, but also that it had at least doubled in size.

It is pure speculation on my part, but I have been wondering if the herd has been driven into the more open grassland as a result of the wildfire that had burned upstream in the more heavily wooded area. Whatever the reason for them being more out in the open, they are a nature photographer's pure delight: