Recently we had an interesting deer story. Ray was out front using the weed eater when he noticed a doe and her two young fawns crossing the road in front of our house. They were startled by an oncoming car and the mother went on one side of our fence while the two fawns went for the other side of the fence. From the kitchen window Nancy saw the spotted fawns in our back yard with their mother on the other side of the fence in the neighbor’s yard. Soon after one fawn went into the woodsy section in front of our house and we saw her a few times. The other one kept running back and forth along the fence, with the doe watching from the other side. The babies make almost a mewing sound, like a young kitten when calling to their mother. The mother was trying to get the fawn to come and it ran into the fence a couple of times. It came onto our pic
kle ball court and Nancy got a picture of it looking at its mother across the fence. She also got fairly close to the fawn and took a couple of cute pictures with the telephoto, trying not to scare it too much. We kept watching the doe and fawn, and our neighbor was also watching. Sensing a little help was needed to reunite mother and fawns, Ray circled the house ending up behind the fawn and with gentle encouragement it moved towards the front yard of our house through the carport to the end of the fence. As we gently “herded” the fawn toward the road the doe moved along the other side of the fence keeping an eye on the fawn. They finally met up at the end of the fence where mother and fawn bounded across the road and into the trees. We didn’t see the second fawn, but figured it was hiding and would get back together with mom as soon as possible. We were sure the fawn must have been in a safe place hiding until the mother called it. A day or so later we talked to our
neighbor who had just seen the doe and her two fawns.
Apparently this doe has had twins for the last few years and we were glad to know the twins were back with their mother. The fawns were so cute and it was interesting to watch the drama. Of course we are glad the story had a happy ending. Occasionally we spot the doe and fawns in our neighborhood and have seen them another time in our back yard with the fence separating the fawns and doe. They no longer seem to be panicked by the fence and eventually negotiate back together. Soon the young ones may be able to jump the fence and we look forward to seeing that.
Recently we had an interesting deer story. Ray was out front using the weed eater when he noticed a doe and her two young fawns crossing the road in front of our house. They were startled by an oncoming car and the mother went on one side of our fence while the two fawns went for the other side of the fence. From the kitchen window Nancy saw the spotted fawns in our back yard with their mother on the other side of the fence in the neighbor’s yard. Soon after one fawn went into the woodsy section in front of our house and we saw her a few times. The other one kept running back and forth along the fence, with the doe watching from the other side. The babies make almost a mewing sound, like a young kitten when calling to their mother. The mother was trying to get the fawn to come and it ran into the fence a couple of times. It came onto our pic
kle ball court and Nancy got a picture of it looking at its mother across the fence. She also got fairly close to the fawn and took a couple of cute pictures with the telephoto, trying not to scare it too much. We kept watching the doe and fawn, and our neighbor was also watching. Sensing a little help was needed to reunite mother and fawns, Ray circled the house ending up behind the fawn and with gentle encouragement it moved towards the front yard of our house through the carport to the end of the fence. As we gently “herded” the fawn toward the road the doe moved along the other side of the fence keeping an eye on the fawn. They finally met up at the end of the fence where mother and fawn bounded across the road and into the trees. We didn’t see the second fawn, but figured it was hiding and would get back together with mom as soon as possible. We were sure the fawn must have been in a safe place hiding until the mother called it. A day or so later we talked to our 
neighbor who had just seen the doe and her two fawns. Apparently this doe has had twins for the last few years and we were glad to know the twins were back with their mother. The fawns were so cute and it was interesting to watch the drama. Of course we are glad the story had a happy ending. Occasionally we spot the doe and fawns in our neighborhood and have seen them another time in our back yard with the fence separating the fawns and doe. They no longer seem to be panicked by the fence and eventually negotiate back together. Soon the young ones may be able to jump the fence and we look forward to seeing that. 
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