That wasn't a purposed photographic trip, but I did have my camera with me. I was hiking in a trail a few miles from home. My 6th sense told me something might happen. I remembered that morning the vultures were fairly low, must be something deeply in the woods and I only stayed on the hiking trail. All of a sudden some different color popped of from the greens into my eye corner right beside the asphalt hiking trail, before I could realize what it was my arms already autonomously reached out to the camera... I was about to bump into a beautiful encounter but also a very daunting one... ... , 1. A fawn! It was alive, breathing, laying there alone and certainly alone; certainly, because it was too close to human area.
2. See how close? Yes ,very close, but not that close, I carefully maintained distance, zoomed in as much as I could. Then more people noticed him and came along, everyone was amazed of the beauty. How did he get here? A baby deer can stand up in 10 minutes and walk in 7 hours after birth, but in the first 30 days he must be suckled, while now even he was starving no one could feed him. Later I learned he was not necessarily abandoned, could be failed to keep up and separated from the unexperienced mother. She should come back looking for her baby. She wouldn't show up now with humans around. Not many people had this kind experience in town, one guy called animal control. They wouldn't do anything to this trivial creature. It is just a very common deer, with very few predators, not hunting permit in town, they thrived in this area.
3. Oh, NO!!! Everyone sees this photo, yelled!! A woman's hand broke into my viewfinder. With the hand you can tell the size of the animal.
4. No petting wild anminals. We are carriers of the diseases that animals never got vaccines as we had. Wild animals may also carry mysterious diseases that we don't know yet, what more, human scent left on the baby could cause the baby abandoned or even killed by the mother deer. A stupid deed, too late to stop it. He was not looked panic, a little shy, definitely did not enjoy the petting. 5. He then managed to stand up, WOW, nothing wrong with him, not so lean, a healthy baby.
6. Someone also said abandonment could happen that meant he could have chances reunit with his mother, we kept fingers crossed.
7. Leaped and bumped into the bush.
8. Watching him disappearing into the bush, it was a sweet encounter, only the unexpected woman... ... really daunting me for quite a while..., anyway, what happened had happened, wished him and his mother finding eachother soon and his mother still accepting him, he got zero chance to survive alone, starvation, there are smaller predators around like fox, coyote, maybe bobcat...
That was it, keep in mind don't touch wild animals, have a look at this one, the smallest cat in the world, look like a domestic cat, an adult look like a kitten, fits in human hands, it is a wild efficient killing machine..
a little shy, definitely did not enjoy the petting.
Big eyes with long eyelashes, with smooth silky
light brownish embedded whitish dotted fur.
Plus, the greenish bushes,
the colors of nature match perfect.
Thanks for the description and the pictures.
U should have been an extraordinary photogenalist!:)
Modern society already immuned, they didn't have antibody