Most of our White-Tailed Deer fawns have outgrown their white camouflage spots. As you can see, they’ve grown into rich brown winter coats, which will continue to get darker, but probably never reach the darkness of their parents’ gray cold-weather apparel.
Most of these fawns will stay with their mothers over their first winter. The males will exert their independence next spring or early summer, but the females will remain for another year with their mother and the other does that she roams with.
(Brooklin, Maine; both images were taken Thursday, September 17, in our North Field.)