Devil fawns

Early Thursday morning I noticed deer around the house.  Three fawns were in the yard south of the house.  Two does were on the other side of the fence in the hayfield.

The fawns wanted to get on the same side of the fence as their moms but couldn't get through the fence.  Whenever they would go to the driveway to get on the road then over to the barb wire fence along the hayfield, a car would come by and they would run back towards the house.

The moms were on the other side of the fence trying to encourage their fawns to come join them.  Finally one fawn ran on the road and then through the barb wire fence.  Once the fawn joined his/her mother they ran off across the hayfield to the pasture.

The other two fawns ran around until one fawn jumped straight up and barely got over the fence.  This fawn and his/her mother then ran off across the hayfield to the pasture leaving the other fawn behind.  I guess she won't be winning a "mother of the year" award.

The last fawn couldn't jump over the fence. It ran out on the road and then through the barb wire fence.  Mom and the fawn's sibling were gone.  The last I seen the fawn it was in the middle of the hayfield with the cattle looking at it.

Here is a  10 second video of the fawns.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWZnfk1IWkw


Later in the afternoon I discovered the damage these fawn did to my small hazlenut bushes.  Yup.  They ate the leaves of several of the plants.  I can't win.