Deer in Cades Cove early morning

A man from Germany had just asked me about deer in the area when these deer came out of the woods to the right of the field we had been photographing. These were taken a short distance into Cades Cove in the Smokies this past Tuesday morning. Labor Day I photographed a Sandhill Crane in this same field. According to the reference books I checked the Sandhill should not have been in Cades Cove. Several birding bloggers Ecobirder and Lynne both verified from the photograph it was indeed a Sandhill Crane and left some good information about the Sandhill on that post.