Late in the season for fawns?

[Joeabowhunter]

Last weekend I checked my trail cam and had picture of a VERY pregnant doe.  Seems pretty late in the year but I'm sure she was pregnant.  Well, today my Dad called me to say he just saw the doe standing over a fawn that she just dropped.  The fawn still couldn't get to it's feet.  He stayed clear and the doe stayed with the fawn.

What an awesome sight he was able to witness.  Has anyone else seen fawns born this late in the season?

[wooddamon1]

I haven't seen that before, but my Grampa swears he saw very small turkey poults just this weekend across from his house...

[Roger Norris]

I saw 2 spotted fawns just yesterday

[Chad Orde]

I have spotted fawns on camera last week and had a hen and about 8 tiny 5" high poults cross in front of the car last week.

[VictoryHunter]

I think it's fairly common. The mother must have been a yearling who was bred at the very tail end if the rut. I have seen spotted fawns as late as mid-november which would put them being born about the same time as the one your dad described.

[macbow]

I have a very small spotted fawn staying around our yard.
No mother around. When we first saw it it wasn't hardly a foot tall. It has already doubled in size.
Middle of the day it will walk around the yard.

[reddogge]

Saw a dead spotted fawn last week and also the smallest set of deer tracks I've ever seen in a greenside bunker while playing golf last week.

[Bud B.]

I have heard of a late rut here in NC occurring in Jan. I guess it would be the early doe from the previous spring's births. Can doe in their first year mature to a heat cycle? That's fascinating. It would also explain why deer are at such great numbers in places.

[Chuck Jones]

I've seen small spotted fawns in November before. Always wondered if they made it through the winter.

[Joeabowhunter]

The picture I have of the doe looks like she's young so makes sense that she just came into estrus late.

[Tony Sanders]

Yes I have been seeing the same thing. As I was out taking my walk this morning. I saw a dead spotted fawn in a ditch after being hit by a car. In my area it looks like a good number of does may have bred late, or at a very young age, by the number of small spotted fawns I see.

[CoilSpring]

A few counties in S. Alabama just this year got their deer season extended from Jan 30 to Feb 10 to coincide with their late rut.  Go forward about 200-210 days and you hit late August early Sept.

They had been asking the officials for it for years.

[bow loving man]

Saw a doe and a small spotted fawn at my place in Nm last Friday...

[achigan]

Saw hen turkeys with blonde/buff poults raiding a neighbors garden just yesterday.

[TRAP]

I think we are still seeing the effects of last years nationwide drought.  A lot of things seem out of whack.  Where I hunt we have more hickory nuts than I've ever seen but not enough squirrels to eat them.  

I think a lot of does went into last fall poorly nourished.  I saw more  rut activity in December last year than I've ever seen before.  Was that because does weren't fit enough to breed during the November rut.  

Just tossing a suggestion out there.  Fawns do seem late here in MO also.

Trap

[Pat B]

I saw bucks chasing hot does in Cades Cove in the Great Smokey Mountains in March a few years ago. That would mean that fawns could be dropped as late as October or so.

[tmccall]

We visited our hunting land this past weekend and were surprised to find evidence of very, very, young deer.  I've never seen tracks this small and they were fresh, in soft mud.  

We have reached the conclusion that, perhaps,  our does have dropped their young late this year in AR (my land is near the border with MO).

[D.J. Carr]

I have seen several spotted fawns this week that must have been no more then 2 weeks old. This is not a typical sight in my area.