Time for Something Lovely: A Fawn Rory Came Upon
During the last season of wild animal birth, I came upon this fawn, lying flat and motionless beneath a log, with his forest-floor dapple camouflage not hiding him from my human eyes. Too young to flee, still relatively scentless, he was a vulnerable creature, in my eyes more beautiful than any blastula.
posted by Rory Shock at 5:03 PM
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So did it make a tender venison steak?
Perhaps to a coyote looking for a meal. I myself generally stick to eating blastulas, tofu, and veggies.
Yerg, blastulas. They give me gas and miasmic breath that'd knock the white off of a cue ball. Anyway, stay out of South Dakota--they stopped serving blastulas in the drive-thru...
Aww rory that's beautiful - thanks for posting that...
so lovely, vulnerable and so sweet....
Where was her mama?
Deer are beautiful creatures. At my parents house, in boondocks ND about 30 miles from Canada, we have plenty in our farm yard. you can almost walk right up to them.
beautiful creatures, although it sucks when they jump in front of your fucking care
i meant car, though care kind of sounds funny
great scene with deer in the ring ii by the way. you'll never look at them the same way
and i do thank you for posting the beautiful picture dear mr shock and i just KNEW someone like no6 would ruin it.
DON'T EAT BAMBI (or thumper either!)
What DID happen to it?
n06 miasmic breath white off a cue ball lfol
enigma: momma was somewhere in the area ... when the fawn is that young, at least in the woodlands, the momma goes off about her foraging business, I guess, and comes back periodically, since the fawn is unable yet to keep up with her ... hence the only defense for the fawn at that time: stay still, don't smell ...
graeme: yeah ... deer-car collisions are an all too common drag it seems like everywhere in NA ... dangerous for mammals on both sides of the bumper ... and if you get unlucky pretty damn near impossible to avoid ... but I guess the vultures and crows get a happy meal ...
I guess that little guy is probably up in the woods tagging along with mom and others unless a coyote got him when he was still pretty helpless (for those of you out west the coyotes up in the Northeast are a lot bigger than the western guys ... some say because they are a bit of a gray wolf hybrid ... due to having been extirpated in the east and then traveling back along a northern route where there was some hybridization with the thinned out wolf ranks ... in any event ... I've seen the western and the eastern quite a few times over the years and the eastern guys are big and very beautiful when healthy ... and in certain regions ... like the Adirondacks, will eat deer (not just carrion) ...
When I worked at the wildlife rehap/hospital, I raised a little fawn about that size. Someone had come across her in the woods and thought she was orphaned. The person didn't realize that their moms leave them in a sort of "sit and stay" place until mom returns. This person thought they had done a good thing but they hadn't.
So one Sunday afternoon I was at home and the local animal control rep. pulled up in front of my house with this tiny fawn. I called the nearest zoo and they had doe's milk they could send me for her bottle. I raised her until she was an adult out at the hospital. After she grew up she was free to go into the woods behind the hospital, but she stayed around until she came into season and then she trotted off to carry on her life.
One of the many experiences I had while I, first volunteered and later, worked at the hospital.
i can attest to the north east coyotes being of great size! i've not seen too many,but have on a couple of occasions and NOT in a heavily wooded area either
pop: cool
right on rose
What a beautiful picture - soft, innocent and peaceful. Thanks.
Awww! I saw one being born once, love deer.
Twice, I have been very close to deer with my dog right beside me. Once was a fwn, much like this one, who waited until I was about to step on her to run. My dog was still a puppy and was right beside me. She never een sw the deer. I laughed. Some hunting dog. I wasn't hunting, I was doing some surveying. It was off season and youcan't hunt deer with dogs up here anyway. Besides, she's a bird dog, but I've never seen her point.
yeah Lily ... yellow dog, nice ... I guess that sort of confirms, maybe, their scentlessness at that early stage too ... lily and yellow dog, funny how unusual sitings of natural phenom. stay with you ... little scenes of beauty to revisit in your brain gallery like some old master painting ...
Dang, that's a darlin' little Bambi! We heard a mama calling to its baby once, on a hike...I'm trying to remember if it was in the Cascade Mts. or the Tetons...
Aghh! I'm only 55!
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