A fawn discovered

May

I’ve documented my dislike of woodchucks here several times, a feeling based on their penchant for eating my vegetable garden in previous years. So I’m not ashamed to admit that I quietly slipped out the kitchen door the other evening, after spying one of the buggers in the woods behind the house. I picked up a rock in the driveway with the hopes of at least putting a scare into the rodent.

As I crept up the hill, I stumbled upon a fawn laying in the bushes. Mother deer, as you may know, usually stash their young someplace. The doe returns to nurse her fawn. But by not hanging out with it, she doesn’t attract predators to her young.

Anyway, the fawn stayed there until well past sunset and wasn’t there in the morning. The (bad) photograph kind of shows the fawn curled up in the bushes. I didn’t want to get too close again and scare it away. The shiny spot is the flash reflecting in its eye.

Needless to say, I gave up on the woodchuck pursuit.

Turns out, fawns-by-their-lonesome have become a problem this year, according to the Humane Society of the United States, in terms of people trying to “rescue” them.

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 29th, 2008 at 2:36 pm by Mike Risinit.
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