Sitting on the porch Saturday when Sophie took off into the woods as if after something so I walked after her. The fawn must have made a noise which Sophie had heard but the little thing was standing its ground. I took Sophie to the house then walked back with my friend and it had curled up under some branches.




Yesterday riding up the road on my mower I glanced over and saw this one.





Then later in the same general area I was spraying multi flora rose and damn near stepped on one, maybe the same one I saw earlier from the road. Sophie was with me and didn't even notice it.

Yep, we've got a cute pair of fawns in our backyard down here in Huntington.
They are the fascinating to watch.

Yep, neighbor was mowing grass for hay in the field beside us yesterday and ran over a fawn chopping 3 of its legs off, he shot it Luckily its sibling faired much better and ran off.

I didn't realize there was a fawn season. Is it before archery season?

Veal venison?

Yeah unfortunately fawn time is the same as hay cutting time.

Walking in the woods today I noticed a turkey acting a little odd, it was walking away from me but slowly. Looking closer I could see why, there were little ones scurrying trying to keep up with mom. As I walked over to check them out the chicks scattered then stopped while the hen tried to lure me away. I finally discovered one of the chicks then I left them alone.






Later this afternoon I'm at the other side of the property flying my drove and notice Sophie in the field standing nose to nose with another fawn. I try to run over there without crashing the thing (it's only my second flight) and see the fawn running toward the pond with Sophie, tail wagging, prancing after it. Then the control alerts me that the battery is down to 20% and say's it's heading back to the launch site on its own. So it heads back and I run to the pond to get Sophie and when we get to the launch site sure enough there's the drone.

Very cute!

I ran across a black bear with 4cubs last week. I have a crappy cell phone pick an no photo hosting location.

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I ran across a black bear with 4cubs last week. I have a crappy cell phone pick an no photo hosting location.

That bear has been all over. Several folks on the Bumpass FB page have her and her cubs on camera.

As for the fawns and haying: In my opinion, more deer are lost every year to haying than hunting season without question. They will not move when a tractor approaches, they curl up under the grass being cut and unless Mama is around to alert the operator, it's normally lights out Bambi. My dad gets between 5-10 each summer and no telling how many he's barely missed because mama came running at him. Cows with calves do the same thing when they're newborns. They'll stash the calves in the highest thickest section of grass if there aren't any bushes or shrubs to hide them in.

Antelope fawn starting to drop out here. Saw a few on my trip to Lewistown yesterday. They are even smaller than these fawns and twins fairly common.All legs and ears.

I bet Antelope fawn are cute!

The fawns all around my area are dropping. Strange that all of the ones I've seen are single while the norm for the last two years has been twins. The area was in a drought, but it wasn't anything bad...at least I thought.

That last pic of Sophie and the fawn in the pond made me smile. My hound Louie would absolutely love having those fawns around. To him they're little more than weird looking dogs to try and play with.

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Originally posted by 95flhr:

I ran across a black bear with 4cubs last week. I have a crappy cell phone pick an no photo hosting location.

Try PostImage. Use the "free" (not paid) version. Easy to use, and you don't even have to sign up for a (free) account to post a photo, although if you do sign up, you can keep your photos there, organized in folders.

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That last pic of Sophie and the fawn in the pond made me smile. My hound Louie would absolutely love having those fawns around. To him they're little more than weird looking dogs to try and play with.

The thing is Sophie doesn't care for water and never goes in the pond so that little fawn made a good decision. After I took Sophie away I observed the fawn for 30 minutes or so from a distance. It stepped up on the edge of the shore and laid down curled up against some tall grass. I saw another fawn stand up near where this one came from, look around, and lay back down. Two doe were at the far tree line browsing.

Here's an image with Sophie watching the fawn, before it ran.



One last image higher up.

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Originally posted by 95flhr:

I ran across a black bear with 4cubs last week. I have a crappy cell phone pick an no photo hosting location.

Try PostImage. Use the "free" (not paid) version. Easy to use, and you don't even have to sign up for a (free) account to post a photo, although if you do sign up, you can keep your photos there, organized in folders.

Thank you sir,
Here is the picture.

Nice pic 95RK thanks, I am always taken just how black, black bears are. I haven't seen one on the property for two years now.

What drone are you running to get those shots..

Damn that is sad about the haying and fawns, I never would have thought about that.

RideWV, boy that is pretty country you have there.

HK Ag

Mavic Air 2 and everything's in whatever default setting it ships as.

There's not a farmer around here who doesn't take the first cutting of hay with trepidation knowing running over a fawn will be likely.

Thank you Aggie. Fortunately for fawns I don't cut hay nor do I even cut down the tall grass and meadows until Fall. Not only does it offer great habitat for ground nesting birds, mice, black and other non-venomous snakes, it saves me a lot of time. The previous owner mowed (as in 3" high every week for a lawn!) all that in the photos, plus a lot more not shown. I mow around the house and down to the pond a little wider than the pond itself and just around it and that still seems too much.

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As for the fawns and haying: In my opinion, more deer are lost every year to haying than hunting season without question. They will not move when a tractor approaches, they curl up under the grass being cut and unless Mama is around to alert the operator, it's normally lights out Bambi. My dad gets between 5-10 each summer and no telling how many he's barely missed because mama came running at him. Cows with calves do the same thing when they're newborns. They'll stash the calves in the highest thickest section of grass if there aren't any bushes or shrubs to hide them in.

Just last Sunday I was brush hogging some property I own and had a doe running around me acting all crazy. I knew what she was up to and sure enough about a half hour later I came up on her fawn. I was fortunate to see it but then I was looking for it. It would not budge even driving my tractor right up next to it. I finally said to hell with it and left that area uncut. Hell, that damn thing is probably still there.