Odd for this time of year...
- Thread starter Bone Collector
- Start date
Bone Collector
Well-Known Member
Actually now that I think of it, I think I posted pics of this little one in Mid March and it was about 2-4 weeks old from what I could tell.
Wow ...They say count back 200 days from the time you saw it first....Roughly when the Doe was bred...
BSK
Well-Known Member
MOST deer breed near a very specific date to produce prey saturation (so many fawns on the ground at the same time that predators can only get a small percentage of them before fawns are old enough to run away). However, Nature gets around to trying everything. In the Southeast, fawns have been documented being born during every month of the year. That's how Natural Selection works - by playing off the variations in Nature to pick which timing produces the highest survival rate.
Maybe just me and this little phone screen, but i don't think that's a fresh newborn(this year's) fawn.
Maybe a late born from last fall that's hung on to it's spots.
Maybe a late born from last fall that's hung on to it's spots.
BSK
Well-Known Member
I agree with this. That fawn was probably born during the winter months (Jan-Feb).
