Chasing in June !

[hammer33]

Drinking coffee watching the back 40. A deer runs through the field and into the tree line. A few minutes later, a doe chases the spike back out into the field, around in a big circle and back into the tree line. 4 minutes more and the doe chases a wide velvet buck, followed by the spike out across the field, over the fence and off across the neighbors property and out of view.
10 minutes later she comes back by herself and into the tree line at the same spot. She has been hanging around that area for the past 2 days and I suspect she had a fawn in there.

Pretty neat seeing a doe claiming and guarding her fawning turf.

 

[redblood]

Yes . I see 100 day outside my upstairs office window. But i never see a buck here rill after fawning. We are a high population doe sink here at the farm and bucks arent allowed until august

 

[BSK]

Drinking coffee watching the back 40. A deer runs through the field and into the tree line. A few minutes later, a doe chases the spike back out into the field, around in a big circle and back into the tree line. 4 minutes more and the doe chases a wide velvet buck, followed by the spike out across the field, over the fence and off across the neighbors property and out of view.
10 minutes later she comes back by herself and into the tree line at the same spot. She has been hanging around that area for the past 2 days and I suspect she had a fawn in there.

Pretty neat seeing a doe claiming and guarding her fawning turf.

Mother does can be shockingly aggressive about defending their fawning territory. I've seen them go after people that got too close, and even seen them stomp the crap out of big dogs that got too close.

 

[JCDEERMAN]

Speaking of fawns….my parents live in a neighborhood and my mom had been seeing a fawn that could barely walk within the last week. Happens most every year. They have a small strip of woods between them and the neighbors (10 yards by 30 yards). I was cutting their grass yesterday around 9am. While on the mower, I looked up and here came a doe and her fawn walking down the driveway. They skirted me by 15 yards and went into that little strip of woods. No doubt that's her fawning area and they'll stay there most days. No dogs around, backs up to a school (which is out for summer so no kiddos running around). It's perfect and they are surely brilliant in picking their fawning spots. Very cool to watch that play out over the years.

 

[EastTNHunter]

Don't know what I'd call it, but I had 6 deer in the yard last Friday morning. Two were decent bucks, which are the first decent velvet bucks that I recall seeing in our yard in the 7 years that we've lived here. They were eating on wild cherries, and one of the does started posturing as one of the bucks walked up. She bristled, walked up stiff-legged sideways toward the buck with her ears laid back, then they both raised up on their back legs and started hoof fighting … right off of my back deck. Anyhow, she ran off a little ways, so I guess the buck won. No fawns spotted, but I assume that there were 1-2 in the wood line

 

[BSK]

Does usually have a fairly significantly sized fawning territory, say 20-25 acres. In that area, she will constantly move her fawns around, hiding them in different locations each time so that their scent doesn't build up in any one area. And to prevent her scent from giving away the fawns location, she will just "drop them off" in a general location, and the fawns will go find their own hiding place (and that's the reason you find fawns hiding in some really dumb locations, like in the shrubbery against your house). When she returns to get her fawns, she will go to where she dropped them off and call to them to get them to come out of hiding.

 

[JCDEERMAN]

Does usually have a fairly significantly sized fawning territory, say 20-25 acres. In that area, she will constantly move her fawns around, hiding them in different locations each time so that their scent doesn't build up in any one area. And to prevent her scent from giving away the fawns location, she will just "drop them off" in a general location, and the fawns will go find their own hiding place (and that's the reason you find fawns hiding in some really dumb locations, like in the shrubbery against your house). When she returns to get her fawns, she will go to where she dropped them off and call to them to get them to come out of hiding.

Yeah and just around their yard, there are 4-5 of those strips. And of course there's the golf course with timber stripping edges around all of that. I'd say they know where every dog in the neighborhoods are and certainly how to avoid.

 

[backyardtndeer]

Yep, have seen does run bucks off like that before as well. They usually have fawns nearby.