Nature White Tail Deer - Fawn

White Tail Deer - Fawn · **2 Likes**

Does hide their fawns in the cemetery behind tombstones.

**mroeder75** · 06-07-2020, 09:00 PM

I had the wrong lens with me, a Sigma 30mm f/1.4. I tried to be quiet, and nonthreatening so as to not disturb the wild life. I had to get close to get the first photo. I am embarrassed to say I accidentally scared the fawn. Then, I snapped rapidly.

---------- Post added 06-07-20 at 11:36 PM ----------

A few minutes later we found another fawn hiding about 50-yards away. I scared this one, too.

**PJ1** · 06-08-2020, 01:39 AM - **1 Like**

Nice shots, particularly the first one. I find it interesting that the young of almost all deer species have spots (which mostly fade with age). That must go back a long way in the evolutionary time line. I know with our wallabies a lot of widely separated species have the same faint hip stripe which must also go back a long way.

**mroeder75** · 06-08-2020, 09:37 PM

The bottom photo shows how they lie hiding. The top photo shows how they react when they know they have been found, and are contemplating whether the threat in front of them is sufficient to require they run. Eventually we noticed the deer in the top photo hid behind a different cemetery stone for a while until we started moving away, and then returned to the area of the original stone, so it was where its mother left it. Parking your fawn in a cemetery is like parking your car outside a football or baseball stadium and four hours later, trying to figure out where you left it.

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06-07-2020, 09:00 PM	#2
mroeder75 Site Supporter Join Date: Sep 2014 Location: Iowa Photos: Gallery Posts: 1,598 Original Poster	I had the wrong lens with me, a Sigma 30mm f/1.4. I tried to be quiet, and nonthreatening so as to not disturb the wild life. I had to get close to get the first photo. I am embarrassed to say I accidentally scared the fawn. Then, I snapped rapidly. ---------- Post added 06-07-20 at 11:36 PM ---------- A few minutes later we found another fawn hiding about 50-yards away. I scared this one, too.

06-08-2020, 01:39 AM - 1 Like	#3
PJ1 Loyal Site Supporter Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Toowoomba, Australia Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 5,486	Nice shots, particularly the first one. I find it interesting that the young of almost all deer species have spots (which mostly fade with age). That must go back a long way in the evolutionary time line. I know with our wallabies a lot of widely separated species have the same faint hip stripe which must also go back a long way.

06-08-2020, 09:37 PM	#4
mroeder75 Site Supporter Join Date: Sep 2014 Location: Iowa Photos: Gallery Posts: 1,598 Original Poster	The bottom photo shows how they lie hiding. The top photo shows how they react when they know they have been found, and are contemplating whether the threat in front of them is sufficient to require they run. Eventually we noticed the deer in the top photo hid behind a different cemetery stone for a while until we started moving away, and then returned to the area of the original stone, so it was where its mother left it. Parking your fawn in a cemetery is like parking your car outside a football or baseball stadium and four hours later, trying to figure out where you left it.