When we recently returned from being out of town I found this handsome fellow hanging out in the back yard. We live in a neighborhood of houses in Ft. Bragg and the house next to ours has a very large yard, the size of 3 or 4 normal sized yards and is filled with trees and nobody lives full time in the big old house that is on the property. Because of this, various critters sometimes hang out there. Raccoons, possums, a month or so ago a very loud barn owl was there at night sometimes and, of course deer, like this one and the occasional skunk. They come up from Pudding Creek which is north of us and is an avenue for a lot of diverse wildlife as the water flows from the east and into the ocean near where we live. Normally I chase deer back over the fence into the big yard but I liked looking at this young guy so let him stay until he decided it was time to depart.