Damn, that's a fine shot!

That said, would it be gratuitous --or blasphemous?-- if I opined one of those 'what I'd have done to make it (supposedly) an even better shot....'?

The lighting is better than spectacular; its subtly bright. Its in keeping with those early evenings when the deer are out in force, foraging and feeding, and fidgeting suspiciously as they see us seeing them. The lighting could be neither more perfect (photographically) nor could it be truer to life. In short, its perfect and nothing could improve that, and nothing I might further opine would alter that. Kudos to you for seeing and capturing that.

There is, however, a little something that would've "improved" the shot, and very obviously [snort!] that little something is worth mentioning. I'll grant that doing what I'd suggest could/would required a little digital reorganization, and despite the fact that I'm generally NOT a fan of digital trickery (unless I can do it seamlessly and am somehow able to get away with having done so), but here's what I'd have done:

I'd have kept the panoramic proportions --that works wonderfully in this situation-- but I'd have cropped off some of the right hand side such that Pagosa Peak is centered. Proportionally, this would've 'increased' the size of the image, and more importantly doing so would've given the doe who stands sideways looking at you (the shooter/the viewer) and made that cautious stare all the more prominent. Centering the line of deer while maintaining their inclusion --and leaving equal space left and right of deer to the edge of the frame as you had-- would require some trickery, and would require some minor removing or repositioning of a deer or three from the right, but so what? I want that one deer who's center and aware (yes, there is another side view of another deer who's likewise looking, but that one would have to go) of you and watching to be dead center, immediately beneath the similarly centered Peak. And I want ALL of the other does to continue on as they are/were --munching down dinner-- while that one, the sentinel, keeps close track of you.

Either that or you could disregard my suggestion, and let the image be as you saw and beautifully captured it....