Just saw our first fawn of the year in downtown Mount Airy. We saw mom, who we've named Dory because she travels alone, last Wednesday are were commenting on how fat she looked. Sure enough, I see her today with a little wobbly legged fawn. Sorry no pictures. Yet.
) with a few glimpses of brown here and there. At first, I thought it was a big rabbit. When I got a good look, it really didn't seem much bigger. Of course it kept working deeper into the tall grass that I still had to cut
Eventually we got to a point where I could change my mowing pattern and push it over to the woods where I had seen what I'm guessing was it's big brother from last year, and later its mom lurking. I even gave the stink eye to a fox that came through and made sure he kept on his way. How frustrating would that be...to have a tasty little fawn all confused and exhausted that I'm trying my best to keep alive driven right to a waiting fox...Well, not tonight!
I don't know if it was the same one from the night before. It would have had to travel about a 3/4 of a mile (or further, to avoid the barns and "civilization" in between). It appeared to be about the same size. I never saw it alive...I never saw anything move in the grass or any indication that there were any living creatures in the field other than the bugs and me. When I came around for another pass, there was its mushed up little body laying in the cut grass
So that bummed me out 
I saw my first one Friday, and ended up chasing it around one of the bigger fields I was mowing. Mostly I saw movement in the grass (which was...a couple feet tall
Then, Saturday night, when I was mowing a field on the whole other side of the farm, I ran over a fawn
I guess the fox probably ate well that weekend after all.
