While petsitting for a friend this past summer, I noticed that every afternoon a female white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) would bring several fawns into the yard to forage every afternoon. Most days I had to photograph them from the house, the sound of a door opening sending them off into the woods, but on one particular day I was able to sneak outside and able to conceal myself in the bushes. This fawn came particularly close (although, as you can see from the blur on the right, I was still in the middle of my chosen cover), but the shutter quickly gave me away.
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