Deer and new baby fawn living in backyard - Near CHS

So, I don't mean to sound discriminatory, I mean, I like deer, they seem nice enough. Though I admit, I am just a bit worried about some of the bad tics they might bring to the neighborhood.

We did try to chase them out of our yard after they ate our strawberry plants earlier this spring - but it appears we were unsuccessful. If I lived anywhere near the reservation, I'd just accept that this is how things are supposed to be. But I'm on a main road by Columbia HS. And one of the deer almost got hit by a school bus when crossing the road the other day.

Now a itty bitty baby deer (at first I thought it was a large rabbit) is asleep in our shrubs.

Any suggested protocol for this?


Some years a small herd (3-6 adults + fawns) spend the summer in the wooded area behind Town Hall.  With so much delicious grenery, why walk back to the Reservation every morning?


Don't touch or approach the fawn. The mommy and fawn will move off in a day or two.


i think you should separate them and put the fawn in a cage. That’s all the rage right now. The Bible tells us so.


wedjet said:
Don't touch or approach the fawn. The mommy and fawn will move off in a day or two.

 The fawn in my yard remained there for a week.  Eventually, the mother deer did move it.


Mom & fawn went wandering elsewhere in the neighborhood this morning.


In my yard, I get to watch young fawn nursing throughout the summer. Today while the doe was grazing in the wooded area, her curious fawn went investigating.


Thanks! This is a photo near one of my bird baths to give you a sense of the fawn's size.


This morning, (6/19) there were two does standing on a corner of Parker,  just watching the cars go by.


mem said:
i think you should separate them and put the fawn in a cage. That’s all the rage right now. The Bible tells us so.

 Thank you for bringing levity to a very upsetting situation. It's been troubling me.


Please keep your pets in your garden, not my tomato patch! LOL


snowmom said:
Please keep your pets in your garden, not my tomato patch! LOL

 Did someone say tomatoes?


That squirrel is positively obese!


snowmom said:
That squirrel is positively obese!

 LOL, I thought maybe she was pregnant. My garden is a veritable wildlife refuge.


That squirrel is adorable.  And very healthy looking.



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