Friday, June 12, 2020

Unexpected

Our house in New Jersey has a big open field behind it, and every year about this time I keep an eye out for newborn deer. I almost always see a fawn hiding in the tall grass or at least semi-hidden in the hedgerow. Sometimes I don't see them until they are a couple of weeks old and out feeding in the field with their mothers. I've been a little concerned that I haven't spied any fawns this year, especially because it's getting late for them to be born, but I keep looking.

We've been in MD since Tuesday for mowing and pea-picking (and pea-picking led to blanching and freezing because we had so many). Our lawn down here is large and open, with one lone pine tree in it, with nowhere for deer to hide. After I mowed I went indoors to get a nice glass of ice water since it was 94 degrees, and then came out on the back porch to cool off a bit. I saw something in the lawn I had just mowed and wondered what I had missed. 


It was a fawn, in a very unexpected place. I wanted to tell the doe she had done a poor job of hiding her child, but it laid there calmly until early evening when its mother returned. Sometimes you can see things where and when you least expect them!

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    1. It was a wonderful surprise to see the fawn!

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  2. That's just adorable. Great photo of the moment!

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  3. So darn cute! Colin texted me a similar picture from his house.

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  4. Oh my! That is just precious! What a lovely treat!

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  5. beautiful photo and I'm surprised that the mother thought that was a good hiding place!!

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  6. Thank you for starting off my day with that bit of sweetness!

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  7. What a sweet looking little fawn! I am sure mother thought there were no threats there or she would not have left it there. I wish I had fawns in my back yard, Bonny. Scenes like this really keep us in the bigger picture of life, don't you think?

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  8. Oh, my!!!! What a sweet surprise! The other day, I met a very alarmed neighbor on my walk. She said she'd just seen a deer acting very agressively with her dog. She was going to call animal control. (I hope she didn't. . . ) When I got to the spot she'd indicated, I saw that there was a fawn tucked into the tall grasses nearby. The deer was only acting like any mom would act if a dog got too close to her baby! (JoJo didn't even sense the little deer was near. . . which is fine with me.) (JoJo is not the smartest dog on the block. . . )

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  9. Wow - that is a surprise. So glad momma returned for her sweet baby.

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  10. Oh thank you ~~~~
    I am thrilled to see your lil fawn. WE have yet to see our fawn. We see mama. We were worried that she had been hit on the
    highway, as we see a corpse there. But, Fireman saw her snacking early in the morning around 5:30 today! no baby, but mammas okay! I can't wait to see ours

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  11. lol, if it can't see YOU, then YOU can't see it? :)

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  12. How sweet. That little guy or gal looks so content curled up in the grass. Isn't it nice to find an unexpected sight of nature? It makes me feel like the world can go on. Thank you for sharing.

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