Doe feeding and grooming her fawn: video
White-tailed deer fawns begin eating plants when they’re 2-3 weeks old. The fawn in this photo is probably 2-3 months old. Enjoy the video below of a doe feeding and grooming her fawn – a much younger one.
The video below of a doe feeding and grooming her fawn was a lucky, incidental capture by a trail camera that was targeting an otter latrine in MA. The otters had long since finished their springtime latrine celebrations by the time the doe and fawn took center stage.
A few days before giving birth in spring, a pregnant doe drives off her young of the previous year. Her new litter will consist of 1-3 fawns. A few hours after birth, the doe moves her young to thick cover where they stay hidden while she feeds nearby. She returns 2-3 times a day to nurse them. Fawns begin eating a little vegetation when they are 2-3 weeks old. Sometime in summer, the mother may allow her yearling daughter, if she has one, to join her and the new fawn(s).
Really enjoyed this ?
I’m glad you enjoyed it, Anne Marie. It was such a treat to find this on the SD card!
All I can say is sweet.
Thanks again for a glimpse of wildlife behavior.
Cameras are the next best thing to being there first hand, but you’d have to be invisible or set up in a really good blind- or just plain lucky that day.
Yes, and this was definitely luck. If you find a fawn you could set a camera in the area, but in this case I wasn’t even thinking about fawns.