deer

After spending the weekend in Central Square in Cambridge.

Wicked Local Brookline reports a deer was hit by a car at Beacon and Englewood on Saturday.

It has not been a good month for urban deer.

For a change, here's an urban-deer story with a happy ending: The Globe reports state environmental officers managed to successfully tranquilize a pair of deer off Freeport Street this morning so that they could be taken someplace a bit more bucolic.

Earlier:
Disembowled doe dies in Harvard Square today.
Turnpike accident near Fenway has drivers going: Oh, deer.

Wicked Local Cambridge reports a deer that had been jumping around the square early this morning misjudged the height of a wrought-iron fence off Brattle Street and came down right on a spike. A city worker arrived just in time to euthanize her, so she didn't suffer long.

Earlier:
Deer dies at entrance to Pru tunnel.

The Globe reports a car hit and killed a deer on the turnpike near the eastbound entrance to the Prudential Center tunnel this afternoon.

Yes, you read that right.

Channel 4 sent its news chopper out to Waltham today so we could all watch dramatic "raw footage" of a deer foundering on an ice-covered reservoir.

Oh, speaking of ice: Will you people stop going on it? You're starting to annoy the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Boston Police report "a large deer" found its way to Juniper Street in Roxbury yesterday afternoon:

On arrival, officers observed a large deer roaming around the backyard of 38 Juniper Street. According to witnesses, the deer leapt a seven-foot fence before ending up in the backyard of 38 Juniper Street. In addition to Boston Police officers, Animal Control also responded to the scene. Since the deer appeared to be in good health and was in no immediate danger, the deer was left untouched and allowed to exit the area on its own.

Of course, that begs the question of how it got there in the first place. Maybe it jumped the fare gate at Forest Hills and got off the Orange Line at Roxbury Crossing?

Deer on the loose in Coolidge Corner!

Marcia Heist just reported that a doe bolted up her Centre Street driveway, in hot pursuit by an unmarked BPD car. The deer jumped a fence and headed down an alley by Beauty and Style, toward Harvard Street.

So the BPD is really bucking to capture her. Maybe they should set some of the Beacon Street killer turkeys after her. But wouldn't it be cool if this Brandeis professor captured her?

In any case, what's next? Black bears?

Rachele Rosi-Kessel offers photographic proof that at least two deer have made it to the center of Roslindale:

How they managed to get to my yard, I don't know. Our house borders the train tracks and then the Arboretum, but there's a tall fence between the two. There is a small hole in the fence, but it seems too small for deer to fit through. Yet somehow, here they are!

Earlier:
A less lucky deer in Stony Brook Reservation.