White-tailed deer fawn, bedded down
Odocoileus virginianus
White-tailed Deer · Upstate New York · 16 August 2025
A White-tailed Deer fawn folded low into the grass of an Upstate meadow in August, still fully spotted. White-tails are the deer of the whole eastern United States, of woodland edge and farmland, and a fawn spends its first weeks hidden like this while the doe feeds elsewhere.
It is the classic strategy fawns rely on before they are fast enough to outrun anything: stay still and let the camouflage do the work. A fawn has almost no scent for its first weeks, which is the other half of the strategy. The doe stays away for most of the day so as not to lead anything to it, and comes back only to nurse.
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