Over the past few days a fawn has been hanging around our land. I think that it is a little unusual for such a young deer to be on its own but that seems to be the case. Maybe its mother has been eaten by one of the local West Virginians. One afternoon Nick spotted it just a few yards away from where he was working in the road. It saw Nick but rather than running away like any sensible deer would it crawled under a truck and just hung out there for a while in the shade. I got quite close to it to take some pictures. It eventually decided to move on and walked off into the forest. I am not optimistic for its long term (or even short term) survival. Unless it develops some sort of "forest smarts" it is going to be an easy meal for even a relatively unambitious coyote.
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