While y’all are looking at snow...

[cutman]

...I’m looking at this:




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[gut_pile]

Very cool

 

[Baker]

Dang that seems early?

 

[cutman]

Dang that seems early?

Real early. Bred sometime in the first 10 days of September? That’s at least a month earlier than I would expect.

 

[USC country]

I’ve got a couple does that look like they aren’t too far behind


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[farmhunter]

wow! look at that!!

We have a bit yet!

 

[Chainsaw]

A beautiful sighting for sure!

 

[TreeDaddy]

what a great photo

makes my day

bill

 

[Triple C]

Cut...That is a cool pic! Don't think I've ever seen a fawn on the ground before late April here. That was an early bred doe.

 

[Elkaddict]

So that’s what spring looks like..... Thanks for sharing. Figure we’re 2 months behind you this year

 

[davidhelmly]

Wow that’s crazy early, what state are you in?

 

[cutman]

Coastal SC. I emailed Charles Ruth, our state biologist, and he sent me a link to the some data from my area. Early September breeding is not unheard of, but it’s very rare. It’s on page 17 of this PDF:

http://dnr.sc.gov/wildlife/deer/2016DeerHarvestTables.pdf#page=17

 

[THE LLC]

That is awesome. It is also awesome living in the South!! No wonder the yankees didn't want us seceding. LOL

 

[cutman]

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[willy]

awesome, thanks for sharing

 

[Fishman]

So how exactly did you find it? Did you see mom and then start looking around or did you just stumble upon it? Hopefully you will see it again in a few years as a nice 10 point. This assumes that it is a he and not a she.

 

[cutman]

I was bush hogging the field she was in (I think she was a doe fawn). She jumped up then bedded down about 50 feet in front of the tractor. I turned off the tractor and snuck up on her. She got up eventually and ran just into the woods on the edge of the field.

When she jumped up the first time I thought it was a rabbit. She was tiny...the pics don’t do the sense of scale justice.