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In nine years here, we’ve watched seven fawns being born from five births. Amazing thing to see. Yesterday morning we watched a doe drop twins. For the last three years, we've watched does in this same spot birthing.

We watched another doe give birth at the far end of our pond which they have done for the last three years. The one we watched yesterday morning, was our 5th one in the nine years we've been here. Awesome sauce. Two nights ago we watched another doe who has had twins last year and the year before that trying to give birth in the same spot, but nightfall happened before she did, so I never got to take pics of that birth, but she was laying down, and then standing and hunching over like they do, but nightfall ruined my chances for pics of that birth. We never got to see her drop another set of twins.

Yesterday morning, we watched another doe drop twins. Too cool to see her hunched over dropping twins as well. Amazing. The fawns take no time at all to find the teats.

In this pic you can see the first born behind her as she is hunched over dropping her second one. You can see the legs and butt of the second one in this shot before it hit the ground.
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Another shot where the legs of the 2nd fawn have yet to hit the ground while the first born watches. She always spends some time licking them clean after birthing them and will teach them to lay down while she feeds nearby.

Licking them clean after birth is instinctual and will hopefully keep the predators away while she feeds as licking them removes the scent that would alert predators, which in our neck of the woods are coyotes.
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Proud mommy always looks at me in my man cave studio to show off her accomplishments. She knows that we are watching and seems to enjoy showing us the new additions to the herd.
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This will be her third year with twins, and probably had single fawns for a couple years prior to that which makes her at least
five years old. Her abilities to hide for 3 and half months of hunting season pressure means she's very smart. Hopefully next year she will have triplets. It takes a few years for the body size of doe to be big enough to have triplets. Not many get to say they have been witness to fawns being born, but my wife and I have watched five times now. Two of those births have been with twins. Nine years here, and 7 fawns from 5 births. Awesome.


The same doe last year, same spot. In this pic the fawns are about 3 weeks old.
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This pic is from a couple years ago. Daddy and baby Mike Tyson. :)
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Also from a couple years ago. Buckaroos.
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finally got a pic of this crow ? (maybe raven?) that comes almost every day to our bird bath. it brings a piece of bread with it, dunks it in the water and eats it.

my wife said oh, yeah, crows do that kind of stuff and I replied where the hell is the bird getting a piece of bread from every day????

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where the hell is the bird getting a piece of bread from every day????
My crows love their water bowl and bring food from all over to dunk.
I've found all sorts of strange remnants, with the strangest being a piece of magpie.
 

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