Friday, June 10, 2016

Twins delivered in our backyard

Recently (May 20th) I was home in the afternoon and was on the phone with my sister. At the time, a deer had given birth in the backyard in the tall grass, about 80 ft from the dining room window. I told her at the time that a  doe had delivered a new fawn . I didn't see the occurrence, but could only speculate based on the obvious evidence of the tiny fawn.


After a very short while, the same doe was shifting around and changing position. Turns out she was giving birth to a second fawn. By that time we saw a lot of what was going on. Within a hour, the mother and two fawns toddled off to a new location for the evening. We lost track of them.


Periodically we've spotted young fawns wandering around, feeding, or hiding in the grass out back. Here's the latest spotting. I had enough time to get some great shots!



































































Toddling off to find their mother.






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