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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_004C_01C6BA17.9544B540 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable FW: The poor little deer: Fawn born, orphaned same day -- Herald, Sat., = Aug. 5, 2006 I was in Big Island during the last weekend of July... It = was quite a surprise to find THREE male deer showing off their antlers = near Beaver pond. One young buck (?) had four "points" each while the = two young ones had two points each. Spoke to a Big Islander who = remarked she saw one with antlers only once in her life. Earlier in = the same day, I encountered a doe and her fawn with some faint dots on = its sides. We would see deer from time to time and one spring in 2000 = (?), we saw at least 17 deer foraging in the SAME field. We took some = photos of such a rare sighting. =20 Cheers, Liz Bob Bancroft stated that during the rut in the Fall, white-tailed deer = go through about three different periods of coming into heat, and then = the extended birthing period the next Spring-Summer reflects that -- = i.e., the earliest fawns are born in April, then many in May and June, = and this article makes it clear that at least a few can be born very = late. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville ------=_NextPart_000_004C_01C6BA17.9544B540 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>FW: The poor little deer: Fawn born, orphaned same = day -- Herald, Sat., Aug. 5, 2006</TITLE> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2900.2722" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial> I was in Big Island during the last = weekend of=20 July... It was quite a surprise to find THREE male deer showing off = their=20 antlers near Beaver pond. One young buck (?) had four = "points"=20 each while the two young ones had two points each. Spoke to a Big = Islander=20 who remarked she saw one with antlers only once in her life. = Earlier=20 in the same day, I encountered a doe and her fawn with some faint dots = on its=20 sides. We would see deer from time to time and one spring in 2000 = (?), we=20 saw at least 17 deer foraging in the SAME field. We took some = photos=20 of such a rare sighting. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>Cheers, Liz</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial></FONT><BR></DIV>Bob Bancroft stated that during = the rut=20 in the Fall, white-tailed deer go through about three different periods = of=20 coming into heat, and then the extended birthing period the next = Spring-Summer=20 reflects that -- i.e., the earliest fawns are born in April, then many = in May=20 and June, and this article makes it clear that at least a few can be = born very=20 late.<BR><BR>Cheers from Jim in Wolfville </BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_004C_01C6BA17.9544B540--
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