UPDATE on FRIDAY, OCT. 15: Wedgwood resident Michael Garnett said he also saw a deer this week.
Garnett said he was walking along 35th Avenue NE on Wednesday at 11:30 p.m. when he saw a full-sized deer near the Morningside Market, at 9118 35th Ave. NE. He said he pointed out the deer to a passing-by driver in a car so the driver would not hit the deer and the driver had a look of shock on his face.
The deer then took off east, toward Lake Washington, down NE 92nd Street.
ORIGINAL POST:
Neighbor Will Crowley writes in that he spotted a white-tailed deer Wednesday night — right on Princeton Avenue, heading toward University Circle.
Crowley said he was walking his dog, when the deer bolted past him. He said a woman had followed it up from Stanford Avenue and that he likely scared it back toward her.
“She kept on searching for it,” Crowley writes. “I went home and had a good story to tell my wife and kids.”
Crowley said the deer obviously was scared and way out of its element. Wildlife in the area is not uncommon, he notes. He lists raccoons, a coyote, eagles and herons among wildlife he has seen. He also reminds us of the bear that was shot near Ravenna Park in 2006.
But a deer in Hawthorne Hills? Anybody see anything like this in Hawthorne Hills, View Ridge or Wedgwood?
