Look who is hiding in the tall grass behind my house. When Baby Deer lays down, you can't see her even when you are a foot away. So tricky.
In this picture Baby Deer is standing up. Lay down, Baby. Everyone can see you.
This wee visitor stays all day until mommy comes in the early evening to quietly retrieve her.
I think it is amusing that I ooh and ahh and protect the little fawns like Baby Deer. In a month, I will be chasing them from my yard like a crazy woman and cursing them for eating my petunias down to nubbins and trampling all my other flowers to bits. But for just this moment, she has my heart. Be safe, little one.
What a nice story.
Posted by: marsha | July 02, 2012 at 01:47 PM
Many people think that baby deer are abandoned but really their mama will come back for them. The have no scent so if humans move them the mama can't find them again. PSA - leave them where they are! Looks like you are doing it right. :)
Posted by: Sarah | July 02, 2012 at 03:37 PM
what joy and beauty. wish we have wild dears running around our backyards too!
Posted by: Grace | July 02, 2012 at 08:55 PM
Cute lil Baby Deer. We have a few spotted fawns around the pasture here too. The veggie patch is fenced, but the flowers are exposed. I know the dilemma.
Jody
Posted by: Gumbo Lily | July 03, 2012 at 05:28 AM
Beautiful.
Posted by: Stel | July 03, 2012 at 08:36 AM
adorable! i should send you pix of the wee possums that frequent MY backyard and torment my fluffers (bichon frise canines who think they're human) -- tee-hee!
Posted by: Pamela J Bach | July 03, 2012 at 09:00 AM
Oh my gosh, how cute! I'm the same way, love them when they are tiny, but I'm out there chasing them away when they're bigger!!
Posted by: Katie | July 03, 2012 at 09:53 AM
Awwww, this is so sweet! Isn't it amazing that they know to stay so still? I was so upset several years ago to find a little fawn standing on our driveway when we arrived home from work. It was about the size of your little fawn if not smaller -- I thought maybe the mother had abandoned it, but with your explanation, it sounds like it just didn't stay where it was put. Poor little thing. Thanks for sharing your pretty pictures -- and for sacrificing your flowers. And Happy 4th!
Posted by: Thimbleanna | July 03, 2012 at 10:06 AM
Ohhh heavens you are blessed to have such beautiful creatures in your garden!!!
For no.. just treasure them x
Posted by: helencrochet | July 03, 2012 at 10:42 AM
aww so cute! must...snuggle...
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i'm adding you to my sidebar immediately.
:-)
libbyQ
p.s. i found you by following "Little Bits of This & That" as she linked to you in regards to a pillow crochet edging tutorial . . . one thing led to another . . . lost track of time and i gotta just say; LOVE blogland~!
Posted by: libbyQ | February 03, 2013 at 11:44 AM