Deer Like Birdseed--Who Knew?

Our highlight during the Thanksgiving meal was the arrival of a deer leaping over the fence into the neighbor's yard. It was brown with black tips on the fur and a black tail, a different variety than those I have seen here, which have white tails and brown fur with no tips. There were two pencil-thin antlers. It entertained us by emptying a two liter bottle of birdseed in the course of twenty minutes, greedily sucking or licking the seeds from the feeder.