I swear I didn't touch her

[rick]

Or should I say it . No matter whether it is a doe or a buck fawn take a picture and just leave them alone. This one just dropped to the ground as soon as it saw me.
Does anyone else have fawn pics. or stories? http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1461250&a=11006195&p=40901818&Sequence=0&res=high
http://homestead.animfactory.com/animations/animals/deer/fawn_layingdown_md_wht.gif




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[rrbuckmaster]

Rick, what a great picture!!!were you just walking the woods and happen to run across her? amazing find!
Alittle worried about the topic name LOL

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[michiduck]

I agree GREAT picture...
that one is contest winning material.
Im sure there is a good story behind it too!!! :)

[Fred Bear]

That is a cool pic! :D Tell us the story behind it :D

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[DaYoop]

JUST AWESOME!!!

[song_dog_slammer]

Rick- Can you post a link to the picture I'd like to use that for wallpaper on my daughters computer. She loves deer. Thanx

[Byron]

SongDog,

Just right click on the picture and save it as a .bmp file. Then go to your desktop properties and set the wallpaper to that file. That should do it. You might want to use a photo editing program to crop out the photopoint stuff before setting it as wallpaper.

Good luck,
Byron

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[song_dog_slammer]

Excellent!

I'm a Unix operator and my PC skills a remedial at best!

[Ladykiller]

Hey Steve, can you put this picture in as one of our e-postcards on this site?

[JT]

Great picture.

I have one that unfortunately I can't find. A buddy snapped one while fishing a PM tributary with me. I was walking the bank around an obstruction and before I climbed back in, I heard a splash in front of me and saw a couple day old fawn fighting the current. I jumped in down stream and held it up under the rib cage and guided it ashore while it bleeted like crazy. Tried keeping my hand underwater while handling it to minimize scent. Dang they're tiny little guys when they're new. I didn't know my buddy snapped a photo until I found it on my windshield coming back off the river on another trip some weeks later. I'll see if I can find it tonight and throw it up here. Cool picture. Peace.

[shooter921]

GREAT picture!!!!!! The title got me a little to. Try entering it into a contest, it'll be a top choice.

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[rick]

I'm not sure If I can get in the photo gallery because I have netscape 4.7. Tried to install 6.0 but it didn't work.
I thought the title was cute and I was trying to get a point across. I didn't mean to offend anyone, sorry.
My cabin is over 3 1/2 miles down a 2 track that follows the ausable river upstream from Mio. I don't go out looking for fawns on purpose but I am "up north" every chance that I get in the springtime. I walk the 2 track when I get up in the morning and I always take my camera with me. I have come across several fawns while on my walks.
The woods where I am at are real thick and I think the does think they are safe to give birth in my area. I have had to move one out of the 2 track so I could drive by. I came around a bend in the 2 track and a doe and her fawn were standing in the middle of the road. I had to jump on the brake and the doe ran of 30 yards and the fawn just dropped to the ground. It layed in the grass in the middle of the 2 track and probably felt safe.
I got out of my car and walked towards the fawn thinking it would get up and run but instead it froze and did not move a muscle. I know you are not suposed to touch a fawn but in this case I didn't have much choice. I picked it up and carried it 10 yards off the 2 track and put him in the tall grass. Again it dropped to the ground and did't move so I just left the area. The whole time the doe was standing there watching. I drove to my cabin and walked back to the area and the doe and fawn where both gone, I presume together because i figured the fawn would have still been laying there.
I found this fawn because while on a walk I spotted a doe close to the trail that did not run away as quickly as usual and then when it did run it didn't go far. I walked over to the area that I first saw the doe and found this one. http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1461250&a=11006195&p=40338010&Sequence=0&res=high
http://homestead.animfactory.com/animations/animals/deer/fawn_layingdown_md_wht.gif

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[Bassman-III]

Great Pix......It has been awhile since I have seen one so young you don't see them out very much

[lawnboy]

Funny the ears are facing to the back.....one would think they would be on you.

[lawnboy]

Funny the ears are facing to the back.....one would think they would be on you.

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[Hunter333]

WOW! What a beautiful deer! How cool is that? I have never seen a fawn in the woods and appreciate it when people share when they have. Interesting to the anti hunters I think, that we find this picture beautiful yet when it grows up, we are willing to harvest it. I think that is one thing that people dont understand about hunters, that we find something so beautiful and amazing yet we are willing to kill it.

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[rick]

This one I did touch. It was the one laying in the middle of the 2 track. When I picked it up it let out a bleat that was loud and its whole body went limp like it had a rubber spine. Different than picking up a dog with a ridgid spine. Like I said I returned to the site 10 minutes later and both the fawn and the doe were gone. That to me meant that they were together again.
I'm sure that you may say "drive around or wait for it to move", but at that point I couldn't leave the trail and moving it just seemed like the right thing to do.
If I ask if I was wrong to pick it up I would probably get 75% yes but at the time it was the thing to do. In my area a hundred fawns are born every day during the end of May and the beginning of June and it is just the way it is. I personally don't believe that a doe will leave a fawn that has been picked up. I used to feed the deer in my area when it was legal and I could be in the yard sitting aroud a fire and the deer would still come in to feed. I am sure that they accept you as no threat to them and feel even safe in your presents http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1461250&a=11006195&p=40534024&Sequence=0&res=high

[bwiltse]

Here's a couple of fawn pictures I took in June with the digital camera. I and my hound dog were sitting on my golf cart, watching for deer. After a short time, my dog put his head and nose up in the air and stepped off the cart and went straight for the fawn, which was located about 20 yards behind us. Here I was with the camera in one hand and yelling and grabbing at my dog to stay from the fawn. It was somewhat comical and I'm not sure who was more bewildered at my yelling, the fawn or the dog.
http://www.geocities.com/bwiltse2000/Images/fawn6279827.JPG
http://www.geocities.com/bwiltse2000/Images/fawn6279824.JPG