This summer’s white-tailed deer fawns seem to be an unusually healthy group. Here you see one of the many that appear to have developed the size and speed that will enable them to outrun and outmaneuver a bobcat or fox in a chase.
I’m not sure whether the same is true yet for one or more coyotes on the hunt. But she soon will be fully deer-fast and reasonably safe from coyotes.
We also have a pair of smaller, twin fawns locally that are inseparable and full of joy:
They also appear to have reached a size and speed that will discourage bobcats and fox, but I’m reasonably sure that they have not developed the size and speed to best one or more coyotes that get a jump on them. Let’s wish them luck. (Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on August 8 and 11, 2024.)