Saw These Friday
We have been seeing a lot of new baby deer and deer in general the last few days (the moon is "fulling",you know). Among them, was a once super-fat nanny (now looking lean) that had triplets and we have seen that set a couple of times in the last week along with two does that appeared to only have single fawns. Driving into the house Friday around noon, these two were standing in the middle of the road until they saw me. The doe went right and the fawn went left of the road. I was on the phone with one of my friends and asked him if I could jump off as I was going to try to catch this brand new baby deer and I would call back later. I slipped out of the vehicle into the woods. I had not gone far when I realized I had left my phone behind. I really didn't expect to catch the deer, but figured I might get a picture. I went back for my phone which was only about 75 yds. I had not gone very far past the point where I had just been when I spied the little critter browsing and facing away from me. I made it to about 7 yds. and took this photo. I was nearly paralell with it when it raised it's head and looked at me. I took another couple of steps and it hopped (not really scared) a few yards away and went back to browsing. I then tried to flank it. I had gone only 25 yds. when I saw the mother standing about 60 yds. from me. She had returned searching for junior. She saw me. She then blowed/whistled, flagged, and headed back across the road. I had an angle on her and quick stepped it to the road where I was able to snap the two lower photos. I went on home after that. I hope everyone has a great Sunday afternoon and God Bless!
Excellent pictures! Thanks for sharing. :0)
ReplyDeleteseeing lots of fawns here in western ny too
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WTF. Why interfere with a doe and her fawn? They'll find each other. That's some suburban stupid, trying to "catch" the fawn.
ReplyDeleteIf you only knew.
DeleteBama boy here too. Probably some PETA Yankee mouthing off at you.
Delete“Us Southern boys have to stick together”-------Maj. Reisman : <)
DeleteWrong. A lifelong Virginia deer hunter who has dozens of deer coming through his property almost daily. Catching "lost" fawns is the bullshit Wildlife Officers have to put up with from ignorant city folks that don't know anything about wildlife.
DeleteClose enough.
DeleteYup, they're out and about learning to be grown-ups so everybody slow your asses down on the highways.
ReplyDeleteWe've been out in the country 12 years now and have seen a bunch of singles and twins and one set of triplets during our tenure. The triplets became independent early. They'd hang with Mom of course but it became common to see the three of them traipsing around without her from time to time, kinda their own little gang of hoodlums. Good times.
ReplyDeleteThree does and one fawn each, on my property, this year. My cat baby sits them.
I get to watch deer in my yard sometimes. It's a gift, just to get to watch them Be.
ReplyDeleteOn a recent camping trip along the Salmon River in Idaho, we saw plenty of deer, antelope and elk among the horses and beeves.
ReplyDeleteLooks like your deer get across the road in a hurry. The ones round here act they are in a crosswalk, just sauntering across slowly.
ReplyDeleteDidn’t see deer on the homeland till I was 18, about 1980. Now they are seen in herds. Turkey as well.
ReplyDeleteI still act like a little kid when Mother Nature shows up due to the deprivation in the early years.
Most doe harvests were carrying twins. I thank my wildlife dept friends and their predecessors all the time.
Almost killed a fawn this morning on the way to work went around a corner, mom and fawn were on the fog line, and fawn bolted. Fortunately there was nobody in the oncoming lane, and I had barely some room to swerve.
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