--- title: Deer Photobombs Sleeping Baby: Maggie description: Megan Rion captured a shot of a deer with a sleeping baby that looks like it could be straight out of a fairytale. canonical: https://time.com/4096794/deer-photobombs-sleeping-baby/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-02T18:34:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:26:32.963Z og:title: This Deer Photobombed A Sleeping Baby and It Was Magical og:description: This isn't the first time the deer has shown up to be part of a photoshoot og:url: https://time.com/4096794/deer-photobombs-sleeping-baby/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Deer Photobombed A Sleeping Baby and It Was Magical twitter:description: This isn't the first time the deer has shown up to be part of a photoshoot twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Deer Photobombed A Sleeping Baby and the Result Was Magical  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Nov 2, 2015 6:34 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Nov 2, 2015 6:34 PM UTC While photographing a sleeping baby in [Sam Houston Jones State Park](https://www.facebook.com/FBNewswire/posts/974015385969916) in Moss Bluff, La., Megan Rion captured a shot that looks like it could be straight out of a fairytale. A deer who Rion calls Maggie wandered into the photographer’s shoot of baby Connor on Oct. 20. The boy’s mother even captured the moment on video. The best part? This isn’t the first time that Maggie has photobombed Rion’s pictures. There is an entire [album](https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10153788580579880.1073742493.110621344879&type=3) of shots of the deer on the Facebook page of [Imagine That Photography](https://www.facebook.com/Imagine-That-Photography-by-Megan-Rion-110621344879/info/?tab=page%5Finfo). Maggie has shown up to pose with several other children, allowing the photographer to capture some stunning pictures of the kids interacting with the photogenic animal. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4096794/deer-photobombs-sleeping-baby/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4096794/deer-photobombs-sleeping-baby/"},"headline":"This Deer Photobombed A Sleeping Baby and the Result Was Magical","datePublished":"2015-11-02T18:34:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:26:32.963Z","description":"This isn't the first time the deer has shown up to be part of a photoshoot","url":"https://time.com/4096794/deer-photobombs-sleeping-baby/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Children","animals","Babies","Deer","photography","baby"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4096794/deer-photobombs-sleeping-baby/","name":"This Deer Photobombed A Sleeping Baby and the Result Was Magical"}}]}] ```