While petsitting for a friend this past summer, I noticed that every afternoon a female white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) would bring several fawns into the yard to forage every afternoon. Most days I had to photograph them from the house, the sound of a door opening sending them off into the woods, but on one particular day I was able to sneak outside and able to conceal myself in the bushes. This fawn came particularly close (although, as you can see from the blur on the right, I was still in the middle of my chosen cover), but the shutter quickly gave me away.
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I used to think deer were pretty, and fawns were cute. Now I still think that, but I don't want them anywhere near my yard. They have completely shorn most of our shrubs, the ones we hauled water from miles to carefully water during our record drought. The ones that added some semblance of order to the chaos that is most of our property. The ones that used to flower. Yes, very cute they are. I wonder how they taste.