Most of the fawns I’ve seen were spread out on the highways. We were in Pine Island last Sunday and almost drilled a doe and 2 fawns when they bolted from high weeds on the road’s shoulder right in front of us. Thankfully it was in a rural residential area where the speed limit is reduced. And on the same road home after our festivities, well after dark, we saw a dandy buck in almost the same area. He had quite the headgear already….heavy and long tined.
With the abundance of rain this year the countryside is a whole lot different than it was last year. Everything is major league green and three times the size of what it was last year. I don’t think the does need to call fawns out to where the does are feeding because there’s so much food for the small ones where they are not easily seen. But judging by how many I’ve seem smear on the pavement I don’t think there’s a shortage of fawns. Last winter and this early spring was nothing but prime for fawn production as well as of that that hides the little deer.
The landowner where I hunt did some buckthorn abatement on the hill this spring and he saw lots of twins and a couple triplet fawns while he worked. The two sets of triplets were seen at the same time, late day in an alfalfa patch.
