Here you see a somewhat ragtag white-tailed deer that is a regular visitor. He looks like a youngster that has recently lost his first rack of antlers. I think he may be too old to be considered a “button buck” with protruding pre-antler bumps (“pedicles”), but I may be wrong.
His coat is in transition to lighter summer furs and he doesn’t yet have the haughty standoffishness of a typical white-tail male. There’s seemingly a sense of “I-didn’t-ask-to-be-a-mighty-buck about him that makes him seem vulnerable. See also the image in the first Comment space. (Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on May 5, 2025.)