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Looks like it can just about walk. I saw one many many years ago. My father was cutting wood and the top must of hit the fawn. My father was limbing the tree and saw it.
How did you find the one laying down?
Those fawn pictures are incredible. :)
I was checking a landowner's property that I take care of and stumbled upon the fawn by accident as it was trying to hide from me. I left it alone except for a picture and then saw the doe nearby. The fawn then wobbled across the access road where I'm sure its mother caught up with it. It appeared to be a recent new born.
We have a big doe that hides her fawns in the back portion of my donkey pen . If I see her around I take a walk around to see if I can find the little one , sometimes succesful most times not. Good pics . Red
I've actually seen quite a few fawns this year.
Most years I only see one or two!
Back in 2006-2007 we radio-collared 53 white-tailed deer fawns here in New Brunswick. They give birth the first two weeks of June, and typically the female will commadere a field or small area all to herself. Fawns are usually left in tall grass, shrubs , ferns or similar cover for most of the day and are only nursed for a few minutes every 3 or 4 hours. During the first two weeks of life, they lay very low and rely on their camoflage spots and lack of odor to conceal themselves. However, after two weeks they typically lie with their heads up looking to spot danger. These fawns are quite mobile when you get close.
We tracked ours for 6 months and found coyote kiled 35% of them, black bear took 25%, bobcat, farm machinery and roadkills the rest. As Ron can likely attest to, when they are this little, catching them is quite simple.
Did any of the 53 live?
We almost had to postpone our Memorial Day picnic. A fawn that appeared new born was under our picnic table. :D It was there all day.
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We almost had to postpone our Memorial Day picnic. A fawn that appeared new born was under our picnic table. :D It was there all day.
It was waiting on the picnic. Who could resist sharing their picnic food with a fawn?
I saw a new born this weekend too. I could tell by the way the doe was moving just into the field, with her head and neck stretched out and her ears back and walking deliberately to look in the hay behind her. There it was, all wobbly legged yet. :)
Neighbor mowed about a 10 acre field of alfalfa yesterday and said he kicked out 8 fawns. Didn't injure any of them, which is great. That field is just across the road.
He went over a turkey nest and several eggs were broken.
We've seen more fawns this year than normal. Had one fawn hiding out in a flower bed just 20 ft from the corner of the house. Saw it from the window.
I disturbed another fawn when lawn mowing and going into some tall spindly grass. I was about 5' from it when it stumbled up and toddled off, very similar in size and shape as the one Ron Scott posted.
Fun to see them. Short while ago a doe walked slowly through the woods next to the house, but could not detect a fawn around her. She was busy eating leaves and brush of some sort.
We were out for supper this past Saturday with a friend and his wife that puts up 6-7000 square bales and I don't know how many round bales a year. Earlier in the day he was mowing and at a certain spot, he could see the grass wiggling in front of him and go sideways. On the next pass, he'd watch and there it'd go, wiggling to the side. Finally when he was down to the last strip, he slowed a little and out bounced a fawn.
I've seen more fawns this year too. I thought with the bitter winter we had, the numbers would be down.
My neighbor has a doe hanging out in his backyard with two yearlings. He said she must not have took or she would've run the yearlings off. I never knew that. ???
QuoteHe said she must not have took or she would've run the yearlings off. I never knew that
I've seen that too.
The deer kills on the highways increase during that time when they are run off, as they pretty much wander aimlessly about. They become "on their own" at that point.
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Neighbor mowed about a 10 acre field of alfalfa yesterday and said he kicked out 8 fawns. Didn't injure any of them, which is great. That field is just across the road.
He went over a turkey nest and several eggs were broken.
We've seen more fawns this year than normal. Had one fawn hiding out in a flower bed just 20 ft from the corner of the house. Saw it from the window.
I disturbed another fawn when lawn mowing and going into some tall spindly grass. I was about 5' from it when it stumbled up and toddled off, very similar in size and shape as the one Ron Scott posted.
Fun to see them. Short while ago a doe walked slowly through the woods next to the house, but could not detect a fawn around her. She was busy eating leaves and brush of some sort.
Wish I could say the same thing BT! :(
Today the farmer that my brother leases his fields to, showed up to mow the 50+ acres of hay.
We ran laps through the hay with the Gator and it was clear of fawns as best we knew then way up in the field a doe crossed from one side to the other and dropped her fawn (we didn't see it) just about a foot or so off the field road and the discbine got it.
Hearing it, then seeing it will make a man sick to his stomach!
Wish nature wasn't so strong and the little guys would run instead of drop!
Great pictures, Ron.
Here's one from a few years ago out in the yard. I'd guess they were a bit older than the ones in your picture.
I've been seeing quite a few deer and antelope fawn while out fencing.
Once while out riding across a meadow, kind of just day dreaming, one pops up in front of me and squeals. Well before I could even register what it was another jumps up right beside me. I think it's fair to say I forgot all about what I was day dreaming about :D
They're sure nice to see though.
Allan
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Those fawns appear to be mule deer, going by the big ears and size. Might they be?
Those little bean-snippers will soon not be so innocent, as when mother doe brings them to a soybean field or your garden.
Authorities had made a study of the deer population in Missouri this early spring. A fellow hunter had spoken to the Game specialist in our area stating we have far too many does and to liberalize doe tags. The biologist said we need all those does :-\ :what really hurts is..those offiicials don't care enough about us farmers who are baring the brunt of crop damage from deer. No, they're only present to protect those deer eating my soybeans every day! ???
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I caught this picture of a big fawn with spots on April 28 of this year. It's way too big to be a fawn born this year. I'd say it's 30" tall. About a month later I kicked up two small fawns that were nimble enough to bound away.
We took a ride around and through the Tree Farm yesterday in the Golf Car. We saw one fawn that had already lost it's spots. She also saw three snakes. Two were Black Runners, and the other ??
I've found two fawns laying down like that in my life. One I have a picture of from back in the old days when we used film. I have a digital one of the other somewhere....
I'm always afraid that I'll hit one during my first cutting. I have never done it but I know several farmers that have. :(
Bibby, if that deer is 30 inches tall, maybe it's not a Whitetail, maybe it's an Axis deer.
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I got this picture on the trail cam last late September. It well may be an exotic. We don't have any kind of deer farms nearby but we've had a lot of things stranger than this roaming around.
One of the benefits of being in the bush regularly during this time of year is getting the opportunity to see young wildlife. Thanks for posting the pictures.
Beenthere, yup those are mule deer.
I saw a fresh fawn this morning out fencing, but for once didn't have the camera in my pocket. I will tomorrow though. ;D
Allan
I saw a video at Facebook today. A fawn was stuck between balusters around a porch. A woman tried to push it's butt through but it's pelvis wouldn't makes the squeeze. She went outside and tried to lift the front half. The fawn cried like a baby but she lifted it and pushed it backwards through the railing. Happy ending.
I pulled one out of a fence similar to that a few years ago on the Naval base. He screamed and kicked a little bit, too, but I got him out.
Doe with her new fawn.
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Nice pic Ron!
Pretty cool Ron! :)
That's a nice picture!
Finally saw fawns this weekend! A doe came out into the field with twins
I wonder if this large bear was looking for this fawn as photo was taken on the same morning in the same location.
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I scared up a "baby" fawn last week while bushhogging. I say baby because I first thought that it was a swamp rabbit.
Going out this morning there were twin fawns right next to the drive pulling new shoots off a white oak. Mom was about 30 feet away browsing on brush. When we got close the fawns scampered off into the woods. Mom just kept on browsing and didn't even look at us. :)
Doe and her fawn out on a late June morning.
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Trail cam here caught twin fawns and "mom" this past week.
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Do you have mineral poured on that stump?
A couple of weeks back the neighbors delivered some logs. We were visiting when a fawn came bounding out of the woods, across the mown lawn, leaping and dodging almost up to us. Then it veered off and continued on up behind the log piles for a hundred yards and then back into the woods. We watched for a doe to follow it or something chasing it but nothing followed. Today Mary was mowing in the same area this morning when a fawn came up out of a rough area around a power pole. She said it came towards her at first.
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Do you have mineral poured on that stump?
;D ;D ;D
Years ago there was a block of salt sitting on that stump. Neighbor had cattle here, and it leached down through and has been a salt lick ever since.
good answer beenthere fudd-smiley :D :D
Doe cares for her fawn.
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When I cut a popple from the grown up pasture I cut a bowl in it and fill it full of salt and water. I check it weekly and add whatever it needs. The salt will kill the stump and the 100's of suckers too. Deer like it too. I don't hunt,so it's no help to me.
Doe with her twin fawns.
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I see you. :)
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The fawn has company.
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Following and learning from mother.
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A few years back my wifes young cousins came across a new born fawn that was only hours old in my woods .I followed the does tracks in the mud and they were fresh .Instictively the doe knew it was going to be a hot humid day and sought the coolness of the woods to give birth .
The little fellow also instictively knew to hunker down and hide and the children thought it was dead .I told them not to touch it of which they minded which surprised me .
I never saw doe or fawn after that but according to the neighbor they hung around in a 5-7 acre patch of woods and thicket for about 1 month .Plenty of nutritional deer "browse" for a lactating doe .
Twin Fawns after a hard winter.
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nice pics everyone I have talked to around here has only seen one fawn and I have seen a lot of them so it was not as bad as I thought it was going to be
I like it after the fawns have learned to run, rather than drop, especially around the hay fields.
They are plentiful here now. I was worried after our hard winter. Had over 4 weeks when the ground was completely covered by snow and hard for wildlife to find food. Had a crust on 2' of snow that let dogs and coyotes run on top but deer punched through and they were pretty much defenseless foe a while and we lost some to predators then.
I have at least one young fawn that runs the fenceline of my pasture in the woodline. Saw a young doe cross about 75 yards from the house 2 days ago and the fawn came out following her. Saw both of them, or another pair same ages, again about dusk on the cross fence between me and my neighbor. The doe in this picture was out in my yard and ignoring my rat terrier. (The orange flags behind her are little Rhododendrons I am trying to grow in my yard). She has a full bag so is nursing but she is doing a good job keeping her fawn hidden. The flies are giving them fits right now as you can see on her.
I went to babysit the grandkids a few hours yesterday and 2 fawns were in dip in the road. I blew my horn and both tried to run and fell on the pavement. Got up and ran through a patch of tall clover. Hopefully they will learn to avoid the road. We have many of them killed this time of year.
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Pretty doe. We are having the same experience here. Seeing lots of fawns and enjoy seeing them run just to be running. Back and forth like they are playing tag.
In the pic of your doe, I'd think the black dots are likely ticks getting fat. But you may have seen them moving for being flies.
Beenthere,
We thought it was ticks too but my wife put it on the computer and blew it up till we could see it was flies. She is a photographer with super lenses.
Once in Ecuador a local Indian guide on an Amazon River tributary took us to a Harpy eagle nest and she blew up the eagle pictures till she thought she had a speck of dust on her lens then checked closer and found it was a fly and that was 75 yards away. In Cameroun in W. Central Africa I took her to a fruit bat rookery in a big mango tree and she took pictures and when blew them up she asked me what these lumps on some of the bats were. I looked and told her "They are male bats" - very good equipment.
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Not a great pic but we have triplet fawns in our front yard.
I have not seen a fawn in years here. Nice pictures.
We had 2 with mom next to the greenhouse yesterday. I tried to get a pic, but they ran off
Didn't have the camera but had a doe and her fawn cross the driveway the other night in front of me, the doe disappeared but the fawn didn't know what to do, it was fun watching it bounce around trying to decide which way to go. I've seen quite a few this year in our area and we saw a buck the other night that should turn out pretty nice, he has a good start anyway.
Deer regularly cross about 75 yards behind the Cabin, but we see no bucks until September.
MM,
Several years ago I'd see 2 8 points and a 4 point several times a week. First day of bow season the 4 point came out and bedded down about 35 yards from me but I let him go waiting for the 8 points. Never saw the 4 point again or either of the 8 points all season after that.
They "know". ;D
We went for a ride today and we saw a doe and her fawn in the road. When we rounded the corner,they took off. Guess I can't say I have not seen a fawn in a years.
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MM,
Several years ago I'd see 2 8 points and a 4 point several times a week. First day of bow season the 4 point came out and bedded down about 35 yards from me but I let him go waiting for the 8 points. Never saw the 4 point again or either of the 8 points all season after that.
There's an old saying I used to hear on the Outdoor Channel hunting shows, "Don't let walk, what you'd take on the last day of your hunt"!
I know it's hard to do, been there, done that! :-[
Chuck,
I'm not a trophy hunter. We only hunt what we will eat so I have no problem shooting a small buck or nice doe as seasons permit (rather have a big buck - more meat but not that much difference). I think I still had a good season but had seen those 3 so often I was sure they were a gimme that year but they showed be otherwise.
Best deer I shot at last season turns out there was one small limb between me and him and I centered it with my arrow. An inch higher or an inch lower would have been a perfect lung shot. I sawed the limb off with the arrow still in it and keep it hanging in a deer rack in the living room for a conversation piece. On Christmas afternoon I shot another in the same spot and at least this time there was no limb in the way.
We're seeing deer in the yard and pasture every day. Young doe has her fawn with her sometimes. Old big doe has big sack but keeps her fawn hidden. Old hen turkey was raising sand Thursday. I guess she had her little ones close by. I rode ATV up to her and she never went far. Last year one, may be her, raised 6 poults in the pasture. Always neat to see the critters.
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Yesterday morning when I checked the back yard and the hay-fields, I noticed a doe in the yard and she had some after-birth still attached and hanging out, just about down to her gambrels.
She was a little fidgety and tredding back and forth along the edge of the lawn and I thought she was going to lay down and finish having her fawn(s), but when she turned I could see that her belly wasn't bulging anymore, so she already dropped the fawn and was just trying to finish cleaning.
After about 1/2 hour, she slowly walked back into the woods behind the yard!
Would have really been neat to see her have the fawn right there on the lawn!
Chuck,
Either real late or your fawns are much later than ours. Ours are up and running when you get close to them now. Most are a month old I'd guess. I watched 2 this afternoon about 1700 run my upper fence line in the woods a couple hundred yards above my 4 wheeler road. Not sure if they were twins or separate moms. I dragged down some tree tops to clear the woods where I had cut some logs. Will cut them up for firewood. Had two young grown does eating on some poison ivy I had dragged there last week when a dead tree with 2" dia PI vine on it fell by my mailbox. These does moseyed through my open gate to my neighbor's side of the fence line. Never did get spooked or run off. We see does within 50-100 yards of the house daily, often several times a day.
Generally the fawns in this area are born in mid-to-late May and early June.
This does fawn will still be a little bugger when hunting season rolls around this Fall.
We had 9 does and fawns behind the Cabin Friday even. Much fun to watch the little ones "finding their legs".
Seeing a good number of them now.
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We watched one in the Cabin backyard this morning.
In the yard eating clover.
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Peter,nice pictures!
They have been around for a while. Sometimes hard to get a pic when not using a game camera. :D :D :D :D :D :D
Today I was picking up a load of logs that had been removed to make room for a new house in an established subdivision when I saw a doe cross the road followed by a fawn and then another fawn and then another fawn and finally a fourth fawn. She stopped in the front yard of a house about 40 feet from the road. She stood and watched me as all four fawns nursed. I did not know that doe ever had a litter.
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The second doe in the picture also had a fawn with her but that fawn was larger and a little camera shy.
warren that is a real nice picture.
Maybe they are hers but does will readily adopt orphan fawns which could be the case there. Nice picture anyway.
Been a cloudy drizzly day and the deer have been out big time. Went to town and back and saw 10 fawns and about that many does in different groups. First group was 3 with a doe. Not sure if it was triplets or other doe(s) in the area we just didn't see. On way back one group of three but obviously one was smaller than the other two. Of course if it was triplets often one is much smaller than the other.
My wife got pictures and a good one of a young rabbit on the way back. I stopped at my sons place and picked half gallon of blackberries. Just getting ripe here. Will likely go pick 2-3 gallons next week when more are ripe.
I went out this morning and loudly flopped a couple of cants over on the deck from the tractor forks. I shut off the tractor and just sat there in the warm sun for a minute, pulling a few breaths. Then I looked beyond the sawdust pile and a fawn was standing in the tall grass and another one comfortable on the ground. I started talking to them and the standing one laid down too, but out of sight in the grass. I talked to them for a bit and went to the cabin for my camera. I eventually moved around the mill too much and they got up and went up the slope. I decided to go for lunch, and when I got back, they were both back at the mill again, in their same places.
Those two cants are still sitting on the mill. Decided to stack and sticker instead after lunch, because that was in the shade and I had the neighbor lady there to help me. We checked in on the two fawns when we called it quits after five and they were right there by the mill. I have some chipmunks who visit me there too.
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Neat!
Are they the blacktail deer?
The first pic reminds me of a game Jeff likes to play called 'can you see what I'm looking at,' (or something like that). ;D
Yes, they are black tails. It's what we have here in the hills. There are white tails down in the flatlands of the Columbia River just a few miles away. We have deer by the dozens here, pretty much tame. It's deer heaven. We like to treat our combined 45 acres as a wildlife sanctuary. This, however, is not including a welcome to the raccoons, as we like our chickens to have a peaceful life too.
Those fawns know whose sawmill that is. 8)
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Today I was picking up a load of logs that had been removed to make room for a new house in an established subdivision when I saw a doe cross the road followed by a fawn and then another fawn and then another fawn and finally a fourth fawn. She stopped in the front yard of a house about 40 feet from the road. She stood and watched me as all four fawns nursed. I did not know that doe ever had a litter.
The second doe in the picture also had a fawn with her but that fawn was larger and a little camera shy.
Great picture, Warren! :)
I've never seen quads, only triplets once every few years.
This morning I walked by the window and saw three bucks running around in a circle as fast as they could. I had to find out what was causing this peculiar behavior. As it turned out there was a fawn that was running around the bucks really fast. Soon the bucks would join in the game. After running a bit all the players would stop for a bit. I watched the game for 15 minutes before they all wandered off to the woods.
I looked around for mom and she was peacefully grazing on the side lines. I suppose she wanted to make sure it remained a silly game and no harm came to her baby.
Crazy deer.
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Yesterday, we had a small spotted fawn come running as fast as it could through the job site. Jumped one silt fence, crossed a fairly busy road, jumped the second silt fence, almost ran into two of us, jumped a third silt fence, and bolted into a small patch of trees. Don't know where momma was or what frightened it to start with, but I think it was safer where the little guy started instead of running across the road where we were working.
Larry that reminds me of our calves after they're about a couple weeks old, they love tormenting their elders :D.
Sampson (Rat terrier) woke me up at 0230 this morning so I got up and checked on the truck, mill and tools I had loaded and connected for a job today. Nobody around it so went back in the house. Sampson resumed so I went out with light and checked the pasture about 60-70 yards from the house. Old doe was there with 3 fawns who were running and jumping and having a ball. Didn't see but one doe so may be triplets. Anyway the finally went in the woodline and Sampson calmed down. He's a pretty alert guard dog. Hope the fawns let him (and me) sleep tonight.
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Great cam pics... much better than my Primos
Here is a previous-fawn grown up, taken last night.
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Triplets.
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You must be feeding them good to have 3 like that Ron. :D
I had two now only one. :(
But IF I can help it, I will. :D :D :D :D
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This fawn and sometimes 2 others have been hanging out in a hay field above my place en route to my son's place. We see them most trips out that way. Yesterday as we came by Mama doe came out and he/she ran over to get a snack. Is neat to watch them nursing and tail wagging 90 miles an hour at same time.
That is a nice picture. :)
On the Run
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Spooked this one out of the bushes in the pasture this morning on my 4 wheeler. It ran and hid by a tree in the stickweeds (asters) I haven't cut or sprayed yet so I went and got my photographer wife. We went back and she got these.
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It has already started to lose some spots. They are pretty good size for their age this year.
Follow the leader, 8/9/15
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The old mamma is keeping a watchful eye.
Staying with mom at sunset.
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I've only seen one fawn so far this year, unfortunately it was squashed and on the side of the road.
A really sad sight! :(
Browsing along with her twins.
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She hears something. A bear maybe.
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I see fawns almost daily here on our place but so far I have not seen any twins. I am sure they are there but singles are all I am seeing so far. I watched a pair of twins and one single fawn grow up in and around our pasture last year.
A single here.
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A doe and her two young ones are coming to the Pear tree behind the Cabin. Apparently the fawns were born early because they are ¾ the size of the doe.
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They are quite comical gnawing on the cast off pears.
I was on a river trip in eastern OR last summer. Taking a nap, I woke up and was staring at a mule deer fawn from 20 feet. I tilted my head up to get a better look and he walked toward me. It was a wonderful experience to just stare at each other for awhile. Then he walked off.
A twin now shows.
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Just watched a pair of fawns trot across the pasture and through the cross fence gate about 70-80 yards from the house. Got up to check and saw the old doe in front headed towards my old goat barn.
Been seeing plenty of fawns but this is the first pair I have seen on our property this year. Figured they were there just had not come across them in my searches. Its fun to watch them playing and flicking their tails around.
Just a few minutes ago I spied at least a half dozen does with fawns not 200 feet back in my woods .Why they were congregated like that remains a good question .I tried but could not get a clear camera shot .
Out in the woods this Morning
We have a group of about 4 or 5 does that hang together. A yearling buck is also usually with them instead of hanging with the rest of the boys. Yesterday they were in a little hide out drying out after the rain. The fawns are old enough now the does let them play. I watched for awhile, but had an errand to do in town. When I came back the yearling buck must of done something cause the head doe was after him and finally ran him off. :D :D
My daughter, Jessica, had a doe with three fawns in her yard. That was a crowd for mom.
I killed fawn >:( with my motorcycle today, feel pretty miserable.
Wow! That could have killed you.
Yeah, it was all bout timing, the little bugger got hit by the front wheel fork and went down. I see deer often and slow down or stop but this time I just did not take notice till too late.
Northern Virginia has a lot of deer.
Wild mammal mothers frequently leave their offspring to hunt and forage. It is a mistake to mess with them or think that they are abandoned. I used to have a neighbor up on Camano Island, WA. He grew up at the end of the road at Newhalem before the highway went through. His relatives were all loggers. One day Uncle Louie brought him a bear cub which he had as a pet for two years. Then he donated it to the Seattle Zoo. Then his uncle brought him a mountain lion cub which he walked around town on a chain. It got too big and was donated. An interesting childhood, but the animals are best left alone.
Twin fawns keep active.
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We have one doe with twins and another with triplets!
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Fawns are always curious, and fun to watch!
Had the first camera stolen from this site last week. I guess it was bound to happen. >:(
Ron if it helps any, it may return. I "stole" one once after I'd walked by it several times not realizing it was there then about the third time by I had to take a leak and when I looked up I was looking right into it, I'd parked my truck right next to it (on our land) and was fixing fence and cutting trees. I found out who's it was and gave it back, they had permission to hunt there, actually he used to be our game warden, but luckily after checking the pictures I hadn't exposed myself to anyone but mother nature :D although it took my picture every other time I walked by it ???.
I think game cameras in Maine need a name on it.
I was coming home around noon yesterday when a fawn that looked to weigh 20-25 lbs suddenly bounced out of the thick brush by the road along the banks of the Greenbrier River just outside of town. I slammed on the brakes then she hit the pavement and slipped as they often do. It slid to the yellow center line then got up and ran across someone's lawn. That is the closest I have come to hitting one in many years. Don't know what spooked it out of the brush. I did not see the old doe come out first or other deer in the area.
Had to go to Lewisburg WV (Barnyard Builders home) this morning and just outside of town by the Greenbrier East Middle school is a big corn field. Two fawns ran out of the corn and stopped in the center of the road. I had plenty of lead time and sat down on the horn encouraging them to leave. They hopped the rundown wire fence and across and old pasture. Glad they were okay. A lot of them are getting killed this time of year.
Three in the yard last night, there was one on the deck in the morning.
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Some just like there pictures taken...
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Where's Mom!
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Found Her! Time for a nap.
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Almost got one with my car tonight on the way back through Maryland, I think it would have ended poorly for it and my little car.
Where's my lunch!
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I had four sets of twins on my little place this year. They each claim there own little patch of ground as the home territory. I worry about one set as there claim is close to the road.
This pair can normally be found between the house and the lake. I ride a stationary bike on the deck twice a day and see them most of the time. Sometimes I talk to them, but they never have talked back....yet.
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They were browsing about 30' from the deck while I was riding the bike so when I got done I walked over and took there picture. They are not camera shy at all.
The spots are fading rapidly on all four sets now. Won't be long.
Up here, most of the fawns are losing their spots now!
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The kissing mama picture reminded me of a fawn we raised 15-16 years ago. Mother got killed by a car and we raised her on goat milk. Old goat would not nurse her like she would an orphan kid goat so we'd milk her and give it to her in a bottle. She was always free to run around our place and would go play with the wild deer in the area. We got lots of great pictures when kids would come by. Wife would call and Spot would come running out of the weeds. We'd let the kids give her a bottle or a treat - she loved fortune cookies and liked apples. Anyway. the kids could kneel down or bend over and Spot would come lick their face and looked like she was kissing them. I guess she was licking the salt off their face but the kids never knew. it was always a big hit with the moms too.
Spot's best friend was our big yellow tom cat Morris. We'd feed her bottle and she'd get milk all over her face and Morris, who was the about same size when we first got her, would lick it off. it was also funny when they got older to see Spot in the pasture browsing around and Morris would start stalking her like a leopard after an antelope. He get in range and charge her with feet spread, she'd kick a hoof past his ear and they'd run a couple circles, stop and sniff noses then go their own way. They both seemed to enjoy the game.
This one is either nursing or didn't get stopped in time.
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:D I see that it's front brakes are locked. ;D
Hes not a fawn anymore but DumDum still acts like it. Middle of muzzleloader, shots popping everywhere and i gotta yell and clap to run him off. Hopefully he makes it another few seasons.
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I've got a doe and fawn like that out near where I keep the mill. I have to ride past them on a rock bar at the line fence almost every time I go up to my shooting houses. They stand there and watch as I ride by even though it is bow season and antlerless are legal. The old doe bedded down about 30 yards from me one day last year with me running the mill. They seemed more alarmed when the dogs would come out than they were at me.
We had the 7 & 11 y/o granddaughters from Wednesday when they got out of school till yesterday afternoon. I took them fishing Friday & Saturday morning and they had a great time jerking little sunfish out of the rocks just above the COE dam on Bluestone Lake. We took them home yesterday pm and Becky, my photographer wife, grabbed her camera in case we spotted interesting wildlife on the 11 mile county mountain road trip to our son's house. About 7 miles up the road alongside Pinch Creek I saw a young doe beside the road and stopped while Becky took her picture. Suddenly 7 y/o Molly yelled "A baby, a baby" and sure enough about 20-30 feet behind the doe a very young fawn was struggling to walk in the grass. It was all wobbly kneed and really cute. It was very tempting to run grab it for a pet but we knew better and let nature take its course. Becky got several good pictures and Molly was really proud of "her" fawn.
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The little guy is really struggling to walk in the grass.
I've looked in the pasture a couple of times this year for them where the does park them but had not found any. This one is the first of the year for us. They are really cute at this stage.
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I saw a fawn an hour ago that must have only been a few minutes old. The size of a house cat and still wet.
That's a good pic TR, I stumbled into one like that a couple years ago!
It's what they do when someone gets a little to close, just drop and remain motionless hoping the danger will pass!
Mother taught them well. My Father fell a tree and while limbing it,he found a fawn. He came home and got my Mother and me to see it.
I've almost stepped on one before with my foot raised over top of one before he jumped up and wabbled off. Almost swallowed my gizzard. :D :D
Only have 2 does around here this spring, haven't seen any fawns. Was hard winter on the deer here this winter, over 20 % die off.
I'm hoping for twins all over, they were fed well all winter. ;D
Right cfarm. ;)
Happy B'day Swampy.
I have walked up on fawns hiding in the open like that and still not see them till I am a very few feet from them. I got out spraying weeds this morning and an old does was about 40 yards away on the other side of my cross fence nonchalantly feeding away. I got off my ATV and walked up there and searched but did not find a fawn. She did not blow or stomp her foot like they often do to warn others so maybe she did not have one close by. They are usually pretty nervous when they have a fawn close by to protect.
About 4:00 pm today I heard Sampson bark one time outside so I went out to check and I thought he was walking outside the fence and I checked to see if I had left the gate open. It was closed so I looked again and realized there were spots. It was a fawn. He walked the along the outside of our chain link yard fence. He walked 3 complete sides then reversed his course and came back while Becky and I took pictures of him. He walked up to the pasture fence and instead of walking under or through the gate he turned again and and followed the pasture fence then walked through a cross fence between the yard and pasture fence where I fenced off a bog. He entered the bog area and appeared to bed down in a willow thicket. An hour or so later I walked out and looked but could not see him bedded down there so maybe he walked through the pasture fence into some real thick grass. This morning while I took a load of wood products to a local flea market Becky had seen a couple of yearlings in and around that same area so maybe one of them was the mom or older siblings. I saw the horse and mule up in the pasture not far away. I don't know if they spooked him or if he is just a disobedient child not staying where Mom parked him. I hope he learns quick or he will be lunch for something.
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Walking along the fence in the front yard.
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Reversed and retracing his steps back.
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Just one more reason to live in WV! 8)
Last weekend we saw the smallest fawn I have ever seen. I think it was just a couple of hours old.
Mother nature is pretty awesome.
Jon
I'll trade you a fawn for a family of coons in the barn flu. :D
Donkey,
You better sweeten the deal (A lot!) before I will make that trade. :D
Weekend,
We are speculating this is the same fawn we saw last Thursday night. Becky had put up some fish and took the trash out because of some fish trimmings and came in and said we had a fawn and speculated the doe had just had it. I shined the light and saw it at a gate in the pasture cross fence about 20 yards from the bog where it bedded down. We may have the makings of a yard fawn this summer.
s'all I got besides an agitated sciatic nerve. :D Although. I did see a ruffed grouse down by the garden yesterday. Good eaten they is. ;)
I saw a young fawn a few weeks ago while driving out my driveway. When I got about 10' away the fawn laid down and put its legs over its head.
I leave a patch of grass un-mowed so the does can hide the fawns there. Got 3 does that call it home. A few days ago I was out for a walk and saw them going crazy. They were snorting, wheezing, and one was jumping straight up in the air as high as she could.
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Larry,
Real neat picture. I don't blame the bobcat for trying to catch a fawn for lunch but I am not going to make it easy one him. I don't know if a doe would attack a bobcat getting too close to her fawn. I've heard of them sending neighborhood dogs packing.
We went out in the pasture 2 years ago looking for fawns where the does normally park them and found a pile of young turkey feathers where I figure a hawk ate him as the head was still there and the skeleton was pretty much intact and then on the way back on my ATV we found the front half of a fawn in the trail. I don't know what ate the back half - coyote, bear, bobcat, dog, etc.
Was bush hogging some fields this weekend and noticed a lot of places where fawns had needed. I dropped the grapple low on the front end loader to act as a 'cow' catcher. Better find it that way than by the bush hog.
He's back! I had sent his picture to a friend in Tuscon and was answering her reply and looked out and he was about 10' from where I last saw him. He crawled through that ragged cross fence then could not get back. It is drizzling rain and he'd shake like a dog every few minutes. Finally he gave up and circled the yard fence again and disappeared along the creek in front of the house or woods behind the house. I sent updated pictures to Arizona. Looks like we may get to watch him grow up if he survives.
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Give him a little whole corn out there. That will stop the shakes. ;D
??? How will that help Pete? He's just wet and shaking it off like a dag. I always love to watch them scratch their ear with a back hoof too.
You should know corn is energy for all aminals, Suger and starch. carbs. With that, all aminals have an easier time.
I think that is a northern thing. I'll just feed my fawn a batch of leftover grits (If there are ever any left overs) which are just highly processed miracle food and that should give her all the energy she needs. :D
I just went to town and a mile town the road I had to stop for an old doe with a set of twin fawns. Really neat and first twins I have seen this year.
I never see any fawns here in the yard. Mostly what come by are the does at night. Big open fields around here and small patches of woods. Never was many deer even 50 years ago in this area. They migrate out in winter and go a little south of here. You won't see any deer tracks here in the winter. In Grafton, south of here, we seen fawns. Woods down there are right up to the houses and no big fields on that side of the river. Where I'm at the only trees the old homesteaders planted was apples and maples. They never planted shade trees up around the houses until later generations. You see these big old square farm houses bare to the winds. :D
A yard fawn is better than a porch coon.
My Porch Coon in The Outdoor Board (http://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=3118.0)
I haven't seen any fawns this spring .I don't have a porch coon but I have Rocky I've been feeding since he was an orphaned kit .He's a big old 20 plus pound boar now .By his size he has to be boss coon .I've got Chuck too .
Chuck is a big male groundhog that also showed up as a kit and build his abode under one of my sheds and now is the size of a beaver .He must have vacated because of all the rain because water was running under that shed this spring .
I called the horse and mule yesterday so I could feed and lock them in their stalls and leave the gates open to take some lumber in with my little JD750. They came busting through the weeds just above my gate and nearly stepped on a parked fawn which jumped up and ran 25 feet into a stand of buckeyes, stopped, stood a minute then ran off up the hill to a stand of overaged Norway spruce. The horse and mule paid no attention to him but sure spooked him.
Neighbor brought her twins by to visit.
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I picked up my Amish farrier to give my mule a pedicure this morning then took him to hand him off to his next customer about 5-6 miles away. On the way we spotted a doe and fawn in the road. The doe hopped the fence while the fawn ran the pavement for 50-60 yards then turned and ran into a field fence a couple times. I went ahead and passed him and in the rear view mirror I watched him turn around, cross the road and head back towards the creek. I assume the doe hopped the fence and came back to him. It is not hard to catch them like that - like chasing a chicken into a fence. I did not bother this one intentionally and he was unharmed even if somewhat frightened.
My wife looked out the front door and told me we had a deer by the fence. i grabbed my camera and took these pix as an old doe and twin fawns walked past the truck and up the hill to the pasture.
We had a big Allanthus, commonly known as a stink tree because of its foul odor, fell in the pasture just behind my back yard fence. The deer have been swarming around it and ate most of the leaves which really surprised me as I would not have thought they would eat it.
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Looks like they are all legs!! Nice pictures.
Very nice.
At this young age they're still kind of cute.
In a little while they're gonna be delicious. food3
I made a mistake one year and killed a yearling just out of spots. Tagged it and took it to the house. Just like veal. The mistake was it was standing in Johnson grass at the edge of the right of way, where it had been mowed, and just about 15 minutes of shooting left. I glassed it out and saw the Johnson grass up to its belly, checked it out and thought, young doe, could not see spots. Dropped it, walked up, saw some spots, strapped its feet together and threw it over my shoulder and walked out to the truck. Maybe 30 pounds of meat boned out, but good.
I've always though that "they all look the same in a vacuum bag"!
My single fawn came back yesterday and crawled through the gate about 30 yards from my porch then bedded down in the tall weeds 6' inside the pasture. This afternoon I was looking through my log pile for a maple log to saw to test my recent mill repairs and a fawn, I assume the same one, jumped up out of them from about 6' away.
To top it off yesterday morning I heard a turkey hen clucking and putting and found her in a good sized ash tree I had cut down in the pasture a couple hundred yards from the house but had not cut up yet. My wife got a few pictures of her before she flew down. Then in the afternoon I looked up and found a big blue heron in the same tree at the same spot. I have no idea what the heron was doing there as the creek in the front yard was several hundred yards away. I even walked out on the porch last week and had a coon on the porch trying to steal Sampson's food. At least it is never boring around here and we never know what we will see next.
I've been trying to reduce the groundhowg population around our outbuildings. Yesterday I kicked up two fawns on the old sawdust pile. I couldn't have gotten my cellphone out in time to get pictures. On this morning's sufari, I set my rifle aside and got my phone cranked up. Sure enough, the two were camping out there.
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Bibby,
Good to hear from you. I like the video. I love watching the deer run off waving that flag from side to side like that.
I have one doe with twins and another with a single fawn we see almost every day. Wife watched the twins racing and jumping in the pasture the other day and a couple days I watched the single fawn racing back and forth across one of the clearings in my pasture
smiley_wavy good to see your post, I hope all is well with you two.
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smiley_wavy good to see your post, I hope all is well with you two.
We've been enjoying retirement. Besides some "day trips", we've been active in Cowboy Action Shooting. I've been doing some restoration of old guns. We still have the mill and all the equipment but probably not made but a couple of bushels of sawdust in past 4 years.
Yes,good to hear from you. Glad you two are enjoying not sawing. ;D
Sad discovery.
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-stillborn-fawns-conjoined-deer-fully.html
Bib, now you can just kick the saw dust to flush the deer. ;D
I think we have one doe left around here out of the usual 3. One got ran over last fall and one got ate this summer I think. Never been in the carrots yet anyway. :D
Well, the one surviving doe brought her fawn out into the field this morning. :)
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I used to have a big mongrel dog who was a tough girl. I let her out one day for a pee break and as she came back toward the house she turned and went into some thick cover. Within seconds I heard her yelp and she came out and back to the house with an irate doe hot on her heels that chased her all the way up by the garage before going back to her fawn. After that the deer could come in the yard and the dog made no attempt to bother them. I'll bet some does are kicking some of the coyotes as well. The dog was limping for a couple of days.
My sister and i witnessed a big doe running off a coyote. Not likely to run off a wolf or bear or cougar.
Where's Mom?
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smiley_thumbsup She must be coming, there all looking one way.
I see three fawns in my pasture almost daily. I think they are twins and a single and sometimes one mom has all 3 babysitting them. The old one might be the twins mom and grandmother of the single. At times you will see all 3 nursing from the same doe. The fawns all look big this year and and I am seeing very small does walking around with large fawns. Not sure if it is the mom or just a big sister babysitting them.
After dark I took 2 watermelon rinds up and tossed out by the gate for the horse and mule. I got up this morning and spotted a big white spot below the gate and thought maybe it was a big mushroom that had sprouted overnight. I walked up to check and found the deer found the rinds before the horse and mule and had eaten all the red out and pushed the rind under the fence and down the hill. One rind had even been pushed against the yard fence about 10' from where Sampson was sleeping in his doghouse. I don't think he even barks at them.
Almost as bad as my wife's dog pumpkin. I was on the tractor and she was with me. She ran up to deer deer barking and they just stood there. Pumpkin did not know what to do,so she came back to me. :D
cfarm,
At least your wife's dog tries to chase them. It isn't her fault they won't cooperate.
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Nice picture of the critters!!
I probably saw just about the same size "fawns" when we went for a ride. I suppose we saw MaMa first.Looked like she had twins.
Jeff's petting zoo. :)
Learning from Mom!
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Nice pictures guys 👍
I saw one fawn recently that was almost as big as the doe, she was some small.
I have seen several spotted fawns this summer that I bet would weigh 50 lbs or so already. I assume they were early, single fawns.
More than one!
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Still in "spots". Exploring the woods alone and then following along close behind Mom.
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Last evening.
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Beautiful little spotted veals youre growing over there. smiley_thumbsup ;D
Fryers
Beautiful photos of fawns. Reminds me of my grandfather and how after his retirement he absolutely fell in love with deer watching lol . Hed get a fawn and be so excited with the binoculars and video camera, he had a big field he could see from his lazy boy in the living room, probably shouldn't have but he use to buy a truck bed load of carrots for them almost monthly to dump out in the field lol deer populations were good in Bridgewater for awhile.
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Last evening.
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They don't look too bad for ticks, is that a couple I see on the mothers back though? At least deer groom themselves but I still see some that have them all over. *DanG things TICK me off(pun fully intended)
I think they are mostly flies, neighbour has some cattle (25 -30) so there are no shortage of flies.
Mother washing off baby!
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A Late Fawn, 2021
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You sure have lots o' critters round that same tree.
Yes, an area I've known and hunted for years to know the animal travel and feeding patterns.
I guess I need to carry my camera more as I have 2-3 fawns and 1-2 does in the pasture almost every time I go out. I drove past them 2-3 times this afternoon while dragging down some firewood logs. Often I'd be 20-30 feet from them before they'd move and then they don't go far.
Spring Update:
We were hunting Morels yesterday, and I almost stepped on this little Cutie. Most young fawns I've seen like this will lay still, as this one did. Had the dog and Family out with me, so we backed out quietly- but after I showed Stephanie and got a pic.
Steve
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This year twins learning from Mom.
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AWSOME!!! I've got a mother and couple twins but they are starting to loose their spots more than yours
Those twins must be a lot of work because you can see her ribs! I hope she fattens up some before winter.
Mine are skinny like that also