Deer season (for photography not hunting)

A pair of young black-tailed deer bucks spar and rub antlers in a field along a country road near Elkton in rural western Oregon. I've been seeing lots of deer in the area recently. As the hot summer continues the deer are out and about looking for food and beginning to form herds as the first hints of fall are in the air. 

As dusk falls on a hot day, a black-tailed deer doe and her two fawns walk in the shallows along the Umpqua River near Elkton in rural western Oregon on Monday, Sept. 7, 2021

Take that! A black-tailed deer doe smacks a fawn in the shoulder with her hoof in a pasture along a country road near Elkton in rural western Oregon. The fawn in the background belongs to the doe and the one she is hitting appeared to be the fawn of a rival doe.