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Watch your step in the woods! Nearly tripped over this guy.
Was out turkey hunting about a week ago, heading to my favorite spot and nearly tripped over this guy. Had time to take one cam pic and then retreat. I know mom wasn't far...
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Cool. Why the hurry?
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Didn't want to upset mom... Plus I heard a gobbler and had to get in position.
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There's a good reason to hurry ! When I was a kid, my friend's Dad was fishing a little creek in a meadow. He came across a fawn laying in the grass (like this one), he bent down to look at it and when he woke up he was beaten and bruised and his clothes were torn. Apparently, Mom was watching and did a dance on him.
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If you leave too much human scent, Mamma won't come back and will abandon Jr.
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You are at least a month ahead of us (Tennessee). Here the 'does' don't start dropping fawns till late May through June on average.
I agree with Iggy...if you hang around and leave too much scent the momma may abandon the fawn.
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Were Thumper and Flower standing guard over Bambi?
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Thank goodness! From the title I was afraid you were referring to a snake!
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Last spring my daughter called me and said there was a newborn fawn in her back yard and wanted to know who to call to rescue it. She lives two doors down from me. I told her the fawn did not need rescued and that mom was nearby. Later, towards evening mom showed up.
A couple of days later I was working in my back yard and the fawn was lying in some plants. I didn't know it was there and I got pretty close to it before it jumped up and ran away. Startled the heck out of me.
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There's a good reason to hurry ! When I was a kid, my friend's Dad was fishing a little creek in a meadow. He came across a fawn laying in the grass (like this one), he bent down to look at it and when he woke up he was beaten and bruised and his clothes were torn. Apparently, Mom was watching and did a dance on him.
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Speaking of watching your step
I ran into this guy at work so many times I named him Clyde
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Fawns come early in SC! Around here, it's usually the first week in June before they start dropping.
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Clyde is a Great Plains Rat Snake he is nonvenomous. There were four of them on that site and as a result I never saw any rattlers in the 6 years I worked there.
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I also was expecting a snake because I have killed two in the last week. I had walked right past one that then slithered up into a tree and the other was just a few feet from my lawn chair.
Yes let Bambi be because it will most likely not live captive and yes momma will show just how much damage her hoofs can do to humans bothering her fawn.
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to cut brush. We came on a doe that was stuck in a fence/ tree.
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Nope he just does that to try and fool you. He was puffing up his neck. They will also shake their tails in the grass to mimic rattles.
If you go out of your way to provoke them and they have absolutely no other way out they'll bite but they are NOT VENOMOUS.
I put my foot down right next to him more times than I can count and he "ran" every time
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Better picture of Clyde, see no rattle
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