Whitetail Fawn

[Mark Colbert]

First attempt to post a photo on this site hope it works. This fawn got seperated from mother and decided to wait for her return in my front yard.
Canon D60, 1/30, 5.6, ISO 100, using Sigma 170-500 APO

[mrclark321]

Great shot....welcome to the forum.

Dan

[skade]

Awe how sweet. Welcome to the forum

[Leorooster]

Welcome. Nice shot.

[IanD]

Excellent capture. Did Ma come bck and retrieve her fawn?

[Crush]

great shot! beautiful animal!

[PhotosGuy]

Nice shot! Welcome to the forum

[Michaelmjc]

Welcome. Very cute shot.

[HJMinard]

Outstanding shot, Mark!

[Harry Winter]

Hi Mark,
Very good picture composition and technique for the Bamby-portrait. --- Did you also observe when the "mother" deer picked-up her child again?
"Not waiting a few hours for the "mother to come back was the mistake that some teen-agers of a neighbor of mine made when they took a day old Bamby home to their own "mother" and then brought it to me to take care of it. (Her name is Toyshka, Russian for "deer".)
http://www.msmisp.com/logos/toyshka-s.jpg
http://www.msmisp.com/logos/Toyshka-s-s.jpg
http://www.msmisp.com/logos/toyshka4.jpg

D-rebel, 70-300 DO at 70mm, --- signed Dr. Dolittle

[morehtml]

Hi Mark,
Very good picture composition and ttechnique for the Bamby-portrait. --- Did you also observe when the "mother" deer picked-up her child again?
"Not waiting a few hours for the "mother to come back was the mistake that some teen-agers of a neighbor of mine made when they took a few day old Bamby home to their own "mother" and then brought it to me to take care of it. (Her name is Toyshka, Russian for "deer".)
http://www.msmisp.com/logos/toyshka-s.jpg http://www.msmisp.com/toyshka-s-s.jpg http://www.msmisp.com/logos/toyshka4.jpg

D-rebel, 70-300 DO at 70mm, signed Dr. Dolittle

A deer is not a pet. Those kids need some work.

[Harry Winter]

Hi there MOREHTML, --- I am still investigating yours and "IanD's" GALLERY Photos.

These Teen-agers had found it in a ditch beside the road and believed it to be abandoned by its mother. --- Wrong!. --- Mother deer often "park" their offspring for a short while to get food. After having been "handled" however by the girls and first taken home to their own mother, the "mother deer" will not accept it any more and after 12 hours its milk also dries up. --- The girls promised to help me bottle-feed the baby-deer, sure thing, they helped for three days! --- Now "Toyshka" is all grown-up and is the only deer in Ohio trained "how to cross a road with car traffic", but that's another story. Besides that, Toyshka does a perfect imitation of being a "wild" animal and runs with the herd. (Only every two month or so she comes for a private visit.)

I don't blame the teens for not knowing about baby animals, but not helping an old man to bring-up the deer is kind of "depraved indifference". --- I have found a lot of information concerning the raising of deer on the Internet. There are a lot of rules about it and I violated about all of them!
1.) Never bring up a deer alone, always raise several at one time.
2.) Never let the deer commingle with domestic animals. (Dogs and cats)
3.) Put the milk-bottle on a stand; don't feed by hand, because the animals will get attached.
3.) "Wean" the animal away from bottle feeding after one month.
4.) Have a "fenced in" large meadow for the deer to roam.
5.) Let the deer roam free after one month.

First, I only had one deer and my cats are not confined to the house and do what they want on my two acres of woodland. Therefore, when the oldest cat, "Jasmine", decided to baby-sit the much larger deer; what was I to do? (They still lick each other, except that Toyshka deer does not lick, it slobbers.) --- The only "rule" I followed was to leave the door of the small shed open after one month. --- BIG MISTAKE! --- Toyshka broke a leg in the woods, which took an X-ray and two weeks with a splint to fix it. ($150 for the vet.) .
Two things got me worried, one was that I could not get her off the bottle and she stayed on it for 5 month. A friend of mine however told me that her daughter had had the same problem, and that her physician told her not to worry because: "By the time she is a teen-ager and has a boyfriend, she will get off the bottle." True enough, same process worked for Toyshka. The other worry was that she would practice running onto the road without any care for the traffic. --- So I moved my garden chair to the end of my drive-way, right at the edge of the road. When Toyshka came running I waved my arms and shouted BOOOHHH at her. --- She would then come to a screeching Halt with the dust flying; --- run back into the woods and do it again. --- We did that for three days, an hour each and then I got tired of this "silly game". But now comes the surprise, Toyshka would play the "game" alone and stop right at the edge. Now she is all grownup and I can still observe her stopping at the road and watching for traffic. (More than 1.5 Million deer get killed by cars every year, but not this one!) They call it "Bambies Revenge" http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Insurance/InsureYourCar/DeerPuttingYouAtRisk.aspx

Don't know if these stories are appropriate for this Photo-forum, but I thought that some of you might find it interesting. As Cathy and Gordon Illg concluded the last chapter in their book “Dynamic Wildlife Photography:
”Whether we get the shot or not, having a wild animal share its life with us is its own reward.”
http://www.msmisp.com/logos/Walking-Toyshka-sr.jpg

Dr. Dolittle (Snap-shot with DRebel, 70-300 DO IS at 70mm setting)