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Photos:

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The 3-legged doe

One day old fawn

Doe and super young fawn

Mom and fawn love

Winter coat

Fawn trots in flowers

Fawns

Deer’s backyard fantasy land

This area with riverbank and grapevines is used heavily by the deer.

Deer “genealogy”

Photo chart of the does, fawns, and bucks who are known to have passed through here or who have spent time here.

Deer leg morphology (3-legged doe’s leg; shows parts of leg: White and line shows thigh and shin. Green line is complex “ankle” and foot structure. Shows what exactly the 3-legged do is missing on her injured leg. )

Ears 1

Ears 2

Ears 3

Eyes 1

Eyes 2 (super cute)

Eyelashes and whiskers

Links to video pages:

Baby Fawn Arrives (17 sec)

Fawns Playing (14 sec)

Fawns being fawns (28 sec)

Doe and Fawn bleating to each other (sound up, 23 sec)

Play Day – filmed through damaged window (1.39 min)

Friendly Backtalk from a doe (25 sec)

Doe chomping on an apple (25 sec)

Doe and fawn behavior (3.20 min)

Two does (Pi and the Auntie), each with two fawns, walk a property route together. Film captures head shake and foot stamp warnings, head bobs and other communications. Pause on initial frame to read background of the situation. For full info, see The OG Returns post.