I see many deer within 6 feet of me or so on the bike ride to work on a reular basis. My ride is through and abuts a militry firing range for about 4 miles, deer like it here, there plenty of woods etc. We always say deer are destructive but no more so then us humans think of all the paved parking lots and empty buildings that aren't being used because we have to have the latest and greatest. Don't get me wrong I am not a PETA persaon and I spend many months hunting mostly with the bow, all the meat is eaten mostly by me. I look for smaller wooded areas where the litlle buggers hang out, so if a municipality really wants to control them there are other ways than guns to thin the heard in small areas.. They are even allowing hunting in Blue Hills reservation which abuts Boston for three days this year to control the heard.

Ok now that I am off my soap box I can not believe the number of videos I have seen with deer hitting cyclists. The one where the biker is going downhill is downright scary. I always keep my eyes open when I see a doe or two or three or four run in front of me because I know there is a buck in trail right behind them looking for ..... This is the most dangerous time of year for collisions as they are in the rut and only one thing contols their thoughts anything between the doe and them they do not see.

Squirels, rabbits and chipmunks are the most dangerous to me as they are fast and harder to pick out.