Fawn Encounter

NVPete · Jun 10, 2011

How many have had an experience like this or similar? I was out hiking on an antler hunt recently when I flushed out a small doe. I was hiking in fairly tall grass, and as my gaze went from the deer to my feet to check my footing, I was amazed to see a tiny fawn curled up right between my feet! I was so startled, I almost stepped on the critter, and it immediately uttered a few cries, ran a few paces, and disappeared into concealment again. I fumbled with my camera for a moment, thinking I would try and locate it, but after a few moments decided to leave the area as quickly as possible. I've seen lots of fawns, but never so small as this one, maybe a few days old at the most.Rewarding experience!

(actually looked smaller than this day-old fawn)

MudRunner · Jun 10, 2011

Pictures don't do it justice (used my iphone and it was dark... not a good combo lol), but we saw doe and her two fawns last year. We waited a few minuets for it to get itself off the road, couldn't even walk yet. The other one just laid there on the side as we drove by. We watched it fall over trying to get up a tiny slope at least a dozen times. I couldn't believe how tiny they were. That was a pretty small doe in the picture.

TOPGUN · Jun 10, 2011

LAST EDITED ON Jun-11-11 AT 05:20AM (MST)[p]They are sure cute little buggers in the first several months after birth. In all my years outdoors I've only had one encounter with a tiny one like the OP mentions and it was just about like you described. However, mine was an encounter with a whitetail in upper MI.

NONYAMT · Jun 11, 2011

Almost ran one over once,saw a doe out the side window and stopped to look.Just as we started moving I looked in front of the truck and there was a tiny fawn bedded right in one of the tire tracks.Had to drive around it to miss it,layed there flat as could get with its ears pinned back.

BCBOY · Jun 11, 2011

Here's a newborn I encountered just yesterday. Dropped on the spot and wouldn't budge a wisker. Cute little bugger.

nmyotebuster · Jun 12, 2011

Not a fawn, but a still-wet calf.

Has it really been 5 years.... wow
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Gator · Jun 12, 2011

Great photos

"I have found if you go the extra mile it's Never crowded".

rmanwill · Jun 12, 2011

Only had a couple situations with the little ones. They won,t budge. Never did have a camera!!!

BuckSnort · Jun 12, 2011

This little guy was in the middle of a dirt road and didn't budge when we came barreling down on him.. We placed him into the tree's off the road so he wouldn't get squished..

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BeanMan · Jun 12, 2011

It's time to do a little coyote shooting! Help these young ones get a little bigger.

Brandon82 · Jun 13, 2011

No pictures but saturday afternoon in Northern CA while bass fishing i saw the youngest fawn i have ever seen. barely able to walk and her mother was walking her down to the shore of Shasta lake to get a drink. It was so tiny, we stopped fishing and watched them for 20 minutes before she led the fawn back into the woods.

llamapacker · Jun 13, 2011

Quite a few years ago at our previous residence I had several whitetails give birth in the shrubs outside my front door. We got to watch several of these fawns for multiple days until they moved off deeper into the woods. Good fun... Really neat.
Bill