Deer Fawns

WV Sawmiller · July 07, 2019, 05:53:35 PM

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.

Bibbyman · July 17, 2019, 05:14:15 PM

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.

Fawns July 2019 - YouTube

WV Sawmiller · July 17, 2019, 06:34:55 PM

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

Peter Drouin · July 17, 2019, 07:05:11 PM

good to see your post, I hope all is well with you two.

Bibbyman · July 17, 2019, 08:28:58 PM

Quote from: Peter Drouin on July 17, 2019, 07:05:11 PM
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.

thecfarm · July 18, 2019, 06:06:07 AM

Yes,good to hear from you. Glad you two are enjoying not sawing. ;D

Texas Ranger · July 18, 2019, 09:29:04 AM

Sad discovery.

https://phys.org/news/2018-05-stillborn-fawns-conjoined-deer-fully.html

SwampDonkey · July 18, 2019, 05:23:42 PM

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

SwampDonkey · July 24, 2019, 11:46:33 AM

Well, the one surviving doe brought her fawn out into the field this morning.

KEC · July 25, 2019, 08:20:38 PM

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.

Jeff · July 26, 2019, 05:36:45 PM

My sister and i witnessed a big doe running off a coyote. Not likely to run off a wolf or bear or cougar.

Ron Scott · August 11, 2019, 08:08:42 PM

Where's Mom?

Peter Drouin · August 12, 2019, 06:37:47 AM

She must be coming, there all looking one way.

WV Sawmiller · August 12, 2019, 11:16:49 AM

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.

thecfarm · August 12, 2019, 01:55:09 PM

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

WV Sawmiller · August 12, 2019, 02:37:18 PM

cfarm,

At least your wife's dog tries to chase them. It isn't her fault they won't cooperate.

Jeff · September 04, 2019, 08:33:40 PM

thecfarm · September 04, 2019, 09:27:01 PM

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.