{"id":139266,"date":"2025-02-05T02:40:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T08:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=139266"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:56:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T22:56:02","slug":"white-tailed-deer-doe-stink-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2025\/02\/05\/white-tailed-deer-doe-stink-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"White-tailed Deer Doe Stink Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some photos I share because they make me laugh, and lately, I&#8217;ve needed to laugh a lot. This White-tailed Deer doe giving me the stink eye does just that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter wp-image-139263 size-full\" title=\"White-tailed Deer doe stink eye at the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/white-tailed-deer-doe-funny-tallgrass-prairie-mia-mcpherson-3213.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/white-tailed-deer-doe-funny-tallgrass-prairie-mia-mcpherson-3213.jpg\" alt=\"White-tailed Deer doe stink eye at the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, Joseph H. Williams Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, Osage County, Oklahoma\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27900%27%20height%3D%27643%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20900%20643%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27900%27%20height%3D%27643%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/white-tailed-deer-doe-funny-tallgrass-prairie-mia-mcpherson-3213-200x143.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/white-tailed-deer-doe-funny-tallgrass-prairie-mia-mcpherson-3213-250x179.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/white-tailed-deer-doe-funny-tallgrass-prairie-mia-mcpherson-3213-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/white-tailed-deer-doe-funny-tallgrass-prairie-mia-mcpherson-3213-400x286.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/white-tailed-deer-doe-funny-tallgrass-prairie-mia-mcpherson-3213-600x429.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/white-tailed-deer-doe-funny-tallgrass-prairie-mia-mcpherson-3213-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/white-tailed-deer-doe-funny-tallgrass-prairie-mia-mcpherson-3213-800x572.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/white-tailed-deer-doe-funny-tallgrass-prairie-mia-mcpherson-3213.jpg 900w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\">White-tailed Deer doe stink eye at the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve \u2013 Canon R7, handheld, f10, 1\/1600, ISO 1600, +0.3 EV, Canon EF 100-400mm II at 400mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I photographed this doe on January 1st at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.org\/en-us\/get-involved\/how-to-help\/places-we-protect\/tallgrass-prairie-preserve\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Joseph H. Williams Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, in Osage County, Oklahoma<\/span><\/a>. I&#8217;d almost forgotten this image but came across it again yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>This doe was traveling with two yearlings, which were most likely her young. Maybe the look she had was because they weren&#8217;t doing what she wanted them to do, or maybe she didn&#8217;t like having two photographers aiming their lenses at her.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the reason for the look, I&#8217;m glad I was able to capture and share it today.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this doe makes you smile.<\/p>\n<p>Life <em>is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n<p>Mia<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/white-tailed-deer-images\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my White-tailed Deer photo plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some photos I share because they make me laugh, and lately, I&#8217;ve needed to laugh a lot. This White-tailed Deer doe giving me the stink eye does just that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16119,13973,16120,1763],"tags":[3801,90,10453,1632,4456,4233,5670,16126,16125,13051,373],"class_list":["post-139266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-joseph-h-williams-tallgrass-prairie-preserve","category-oklahoma","category-osage-county","category-white-tailed-deer","tag-deer","tag-humor-2","tag-laugh","tag-mammals","tag-odocoileus-virginianus","tag-prairie","tag-stink-eye","tag-tallgrass","tag-tallgrass-prairie","tag-white-tailed-deer","tag-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/white-tailed-deer-doe-funny-tallgrass-prairie-mia-mcpherson-3213.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-Aee","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":138579,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2025\/01\/08\/oklahoma-tallgrass-prairie-white-tailed-deer-buck\/","url_meta":{"origin":139266,"position":0},"title":"Oklahoma Tallgrass Prairie White-tailed Deer Buck","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"January 8, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"On my first visit to Oklahoma's Joseph H. 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