We were driving home from our picnic breakfast the other morning when we came across this deer on the side of the road. He was certainly enjoying the new spring growth of green leaves on the bushes.
He just looked at me, so I clicked. Beautiful deer, don’t you think?
” Most fawns are born in May or June after a 200-day gestation period. First-time doe mothers usually produce one offspring, but then give birth to two or even three in subsequent years.
” Fawns are left alone during the first week of life except when the mother returns to nurse. To protect themselves, fawns lie motionless in leaves, which camouflage them. By the following spring, the fawn has turned into a yearling and stays in the area and returns to the mother for the fall and winter. They leave the mother for good the following spring with the bucks going with other males and does heading off with females.”
https://patch.com/massachusetts/barnstable-hyannis/20-things-you-may-not-have-known-about-deer_e43139fb-barnstable-hyannis
It is so great to see a white tailed deer again. Here on the west coast we have black tailed deer which I think are a bit smaller than their east coast cousins. Both are beautiful!