05/18/2026
Fawn season 🦌
It’s baby season for white-tailed deer! From April to July – especially in May and June – lots of fawns are being born in our area. 🦌💚
If you spot a tiny fawn all by itself in the woods, your yard, a garden, or tall grass, it might look abandoned, but it usually isn’t. Mom is almost always nearby. She’ll leave her baby hidden and come back every few hours to feed and move it. When people hang around, it can actually scare her off.
Fawns are “hiders,” which means they tend to stay very still and won’t run away, even if you walk right up to them. The kindest thing you can do is give the fawn space, keep kids and pets away, and avoid feeding it or trying to care for it.
A fawn’s best chance of survival is staying in the wild with its mother. 🏞️
Animal Services Officers and wildlife management specialists receive many calls this time of year about found white-tailed deer fawns. In most cases, fawns are healthy and need no human intervention. You should only seek help for a fawn if it is showing obvious signs of injury or distress.
More details: https://bit.ly/43wMBW5
📷: Jane Gamble
