Actually go Wonder close and leave some apples if you can. If you continue doing that and you are super still sometimes deer will come sniff you.
Then there's other times under this one apple tree a certain times of the year the deer would eat the apples and they'd be fermented and they get drunk.
Then of course there's the older buck that always monopolize that specific area. I wonder if there's such thing as alcoholic deer... He definitely seemed to be such a deer... Definitely a rotten apple falling down drunk deer for as long as there was alcoholic apples.
Anyway sorry about that kind of thought and more about your amazing wildlife encounters. Watch out for any new large rocks. Don't try to step on them they might be deer. I've had that happen before.
Uh .... I must wait this new summer end then I have lot apples :)) .... then I can use this idea :)
But I'm sure they know me long time , I walk there lot and like you see here in photos they did not run fast, they was wait that I move close so they can then slow move in forest. Lot times they run fast .
The more that you are still the more that you can get closer to them and acclimatize them.
Beware of doing that though wild things can fight back and deer are very brutal with those hooves.
I like to admire them from a distance unless I'm trying to get dinner.
Deer meat is also good ... ;)
Gahmu is our words. Deer in Shoshone.