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Topic Started: May 26 2008, 05:59 PM (205 Views)
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Saturday I was out with my video camera hoping to get a friends turkey kill on video. We had a couple birds going but things didn't work out.
What was really cool and made the our day was what we didn't expect to see. We were walking back the fence line, our vision on high alert trying to spot birds before they spotted us. I looked over to my left to see a doe standing on the edge of a tree line and underneath her was a fawn. The doe bolted and the fawn milled around for brief period before bedding down. We snuck up towards it just so I could get it all on video. We never touched or harmed the fawn.
It was the first time I have ever seen a fawn that small. I'm guessing it was a week old.
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That is pretty cool. I had that with a moose when I used to work fire in thunderbay. It was just born and could hardly stand up. Cow seemed alittle stressed running in and out of the bush so we got out of there. I heard that moose like to give birth on grassy points on a lake and that was exactly where this cow and calf were. Thanks for posting
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How long do fawns keep their spots. I saw a handful of young deer, but none had spots. They couldn't be year olds I don't think? None of the does looked fat either. They must have had them much earlier?
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that's really cool Slim. I've never seen them that young in the wild before but I've watched them a lot when they were a month or so old and travelling with mom.

Billert, I've seen them with quite visible spots into late August. The earliest born fawns this year should still have quite visible spots and should only be standing about 1.5 ft tall.
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Yeah that's what I thought. I'd odd, I saw 4-5 mature does today in daylight none had fawns or looked pregnant. Most had really young looking fawns but no spots, they didn't look a full year old either though, but weren't newborns either. Odd.
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years ago i watched a doe give birth, i saw her in a field and couldn;t figure out why she was standing real funny, then it started and realized i was watching the birth of a deer.
Amazing thing to see for sure
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I have seen and photographed fawns with spots the second week of August on Manitoulin island. Never seen spots during the hunting season though. Shame really, they would make a good "spot" to hold on lol)))
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