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A Boonton woman saw this deer in her backyard on Friday and Saturday.

(Courtesy Susan Darrah)

UPDATE: PHOTOS: Rockaway woman again sees deer with arrow in head



ROCKAWAY TOWNSHIP

— Seeing deer wander through her Boonton backyard is a regular occurrence for Susan Darrah.

But even Darrah admits she was taken aback by what she saw when she looked out her living room window at about noon on Friday: a young deer with an arrow through its head.

As startling a sight as it was, the animal wasn't bleeding and didn't appear to be frightened, she said. Darrah immediately contacted animal control in town as well as the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife.

"I know a lot of hunters and I know that was nothing done intentionally," Darrah said by phone this morning, noting her yard attracts deer often since it has a large pear tree and its located near Split Rock Reservoir. "I'm sure if any hunter saw him, they would have been kind of enough to put him down," she said.

Darrah spoke to a Fish & Wildlife representative and followed their advice to put out a supply of corn for the deer, which appeared to be traveling in a herd with four others.

The animal re-appeared at 5 p.m. Friday and then again at 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. Saturday, but Darrah said she hasn't seen it since.

The state Division of Fish and Wildlife sent out a crew to the area today looking for the deer, spokesman Bob Considine said. He added that the department would tranquilize the animal in the hopes of removing the arrow.

The state is in the midst of its fall bow hunt season.

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