{"id":590230,"date":"2026-04-17T18:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/590230\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T18:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:29:08","slug":"ocean-city-keep-an-eye-out-for-downtown-deer-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/590230\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean City: Keep an eye out for downtown deer | Latest News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">OCEAN CITY, Md. &#8211; Ocean City officials are asking residents and visitors to be on the lookout for a pair of deer that have been spotted roaming the downtown area over the past few days.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Ocean City Police Department says officers have been monitoring the \u201cvacationing\u201d deer and urge drivers to be on alert, as many people don\u2019t expect to encounter wildlife like deer on the roads of Ocean City.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cBelieve it or not, this is perfectly normal,\u201d OCPD said in an email early Friday morning. \u201cDeer occasionally wander into town and have even been spotted along the sandbars, taking a dip and enjoying the fresh vegetation in our dunes and bayside areas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Police ask that neighbors and visitors admire the deer from a distance for the safety of both humans and animals. Visiting deer usually find their way back to the West Ocean City area on their own, officials say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OCEAN CITY, Md. &#8211; Ocean City officials are asking residents and visitors to be on the lookout for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[10740,257753,8640,7221,86412,257754,257752,228386,79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-590230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-deer","9":"tag-fire-bringer","10":"tag-maryland","11":"tag-nature","12":"tag-ocean-city","13":"tag-ocean-city-police-department","14":"tag-odocoileus","15":"tag-salisbury-metropolitan-area","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}