Ever seen Deer scared of bait

I put out some strawberry rice bran yesterday for the first time. About an hour later I had 7 does come out and you would have thought the pile was a pile of rattle snakes. They only settled down about dark. They walked around it and went back into the woods for a bit and then one would run out and stand 10 yards from it looking at it nose in the air then quick darts of the head. they finally literally surrounded it just inside the wood line and watched it for at least 20 minutes. They never tried to eat it and the closest they got to it was about 5 yards. It was the strangest and most entertaining thing I have seen in a long time. I just wish my spinner on my feeder would have went off when they had it surrounded and were starring at it. That would have been funny to have on video.