Seeing spotter Fawns

[TurtleFace]

Anyone else still seeing fawns so young they are still spotted? I don't remember seeing them still at this point in Rockland. Not in the past 4 years or so...

Attached is taken on my way to work.

[moog5050]

we are still seeing spotted fawns on cam

[corydd7]

Yup same here. 

[grampy]

Fawns will carry their spots, from birth, until their first winter coat. So all the fawns born this spring will still have spots.

[TurtleFace]

Hm, well alright then.

[jperch]

When a fawn walks directly beneath your tree stand during archery season you can often still see the feint spots beneath their newly formed coat.  So I am guessing that means the old hair has not fallen out at that point.  I don't know when they actually lose this hair but I suppose two coats of hair is warmer than one.  This is probably an advantage for deer of smaller body mass.  This is just speculation on my part, guess we would need a deer biologist to chime in.

jperch

[chrisw]

I see 1.5yr old deer each season with a faint row of white spots running along their spine also.

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[f3cbboy]

I am seeing spotted fawns all over spring valley and nanuet in rockland

[wooly]

33 minutes ago, chrisw said:

I see 1.5yr old deer each season with a faint row of white spots running along their spine also.
 

I think it was 3 years ago I kept seeing a buck with spots down his spine all through October.

I finally killed him on opening day of regular season but his spots were gone... or maybe I just forgot to look for them.

I never made the connection that it was the same deer until later in the season looking back on my pictures.

My guess was he was 2.5 yo. You can see the spots down his spine in the live photos

 

[Cabin Fever]

I would be surprised if they didn't have spots in mid August. I've seen fawns in October with visible spots.

[Swamp_bucks]

All my fawns on camera still have spots.

[TurtleFace]

Very interesting... going to be my first early season in the woods so there's going to be a whole lot of new things to see, versus the regular day to day sights around the edge of the house.

[jperch]

This gives a whole to meaning to "Pick a spot".

jperch

[sodfather]

Seen a handful today had spots 

[dbHunterNY]

what matters more is their conditioning and size.  i just pulled a trail cam and had some with spots but they were some of the stoutest fawns i've seen.  doe too.  didn't seem to be buck fawns that i could tell anyway.