As I was riding in this morning on the EBBP, on the stretch between  
the bridge w/the 'fixed' pothole and the causeway, I came across two  
deer out for their morning stroll on the path.  This being in the  
light of dawn, neither one of us registered on each others radars  
until I was about 20-30 yards away from the pair.  They both bolted  
east into the bushes, but their path was cut off by fencing, so after  
a few seconds of thrashing, they proceeded to race back out onto the  
path right in front of me, ran up a few yards, and tried again...they  
proceeded to turn east again, and were back out on the path again,  
clearly upset...by this point I had slowed to a crawl and eventually  
dismounted to give them some space to figure out which way they  
wanted to go, and they proceeded to yo-yo off and on the path until  
finally they got past the crossing with the chainlink fence, and  
managed to run off around the pond, probably waking up all the swans  
in the process...

It was a change of pace from the usual ride....

Amit




Amit Basu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
Brown University, Box H
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