[tkwalker]

Originally Posted by Alan 54

We too live in the country on 13 acres. We have a doe with 3 fawns. The doe must have been around for a while. She doesn't spook when we go out to feed the horses. The fawns sometimes will spook and run away. The look on the doe is funny. She looks at us then at the fleeing fawns and then back at us. Then she reluctantly follows her babies. Now the fawns are getting use to us and many times the will get off to 75 to 100 yards and watch us. I think they will soon just ignore us.
We have the usual sorts of animals around here. In the winter of 2017 I had a trail camera on a deer scrape. I videoed a river otter smelling the scrape and then ran off. The closest water is about 3/4 to 1 mile away.

The deer have been coming around for decades. Our thoughts have been that the deer that come and feed on a little slab of limestone rock in the middle of my one acre back yard that I mow are off spring from deer herds of the past ... That were brought here as youngsters. I've been told (don't know for a fact) unless driven out that deer will stay and live in one square mile of where they were raised ... Anyway we enjoy them .... TK