About seven years ago, I started cycling again after a fifteen year pause. I was in my mid-to-late 30s and had never seen a wild deer in the city.
Once I started spending a lot of time on the Humber Trail, it wasn't long until I started seeing deer on a regular basis. I'd see them near the Old Mill, by the Oculus just north of the Humber Bay Bridge and just hanging around King's Mill Park.
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I'd see one by its lonesome, a pair, even three at a time. Then, on May 5th, I found myself in Parklawn Cemetery at Bloor and Prince Edward Drive on a quiet afternoon where I saw four deer lazily grazing. I got pretty close and just watched them hanging out. It was pretty awesome.
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Toronto's full of deer, but until I started biking the trails on a daily basis, I never had the pleasure of seeing them outside a zoo.