**** Info via Hope for Wildlife
Hiding in plain sight!
How many fawns can you see sleeping in our small deer field? From a distance, at a predator’s height, it’s almost impossible to tell that there are twelve fawns laying in this patch of grass.
Fawns instinctively will lay down to wait for mom and sleep in tall grass. This keeps them safe from predators and helps to keep them cool. Mother deer will leave their babies alone for 12 to 16 hours a day, usually staying within a 200-yard distance to keep an ear out. If you come across a deer sitting quietly underneath a bush or alone in a field, with its head up and alert, and not crying or shivering, this is normal behaviour and the fawn is doing exactly what it should be doing. A fawn in this condition doesn’t need to be helped!
If you see a fawn that is wandering about, crying excessively, is shivering, laying on its side, has flies buzzing about it, or the mother is found dead nearby – contact us or a nearby wildlife rehabilitator.
From June 1st to the 30th, every $1 donated to us through our Canada Helps page gives us a chance to win $20,000 from Canada Helps in the Great Canadian Giving Challenge! If you would like to support us in our rehabilitation efforts, we would appreciate it! Please visit
http://www.hopeforwildlife.net/giving
