Designer and photographer Peter G. stumbled upon Bambilicious scene while hiking at a Rhode Island wildlife refuge. Photos of two fawns glurping were captured before they scampered away:
Deer hover-text facts from VeganPeace.
Bambilicious
June 27, 2010 By
EEE! That Bambi-baroo!
Also love mom’s “Excuse me! Do you MIND?”
Even Mom is udder-ly adorable.
But the fawns… Especially in pics 2, 5, 6, and last…! I just squee’d until I saw spots. Er, even more spots, I mean.
They are so cute! I could not imagine how cruel that the hunter kill them .
#6, especially. “Hi, what are you? Will you be my friend?” …squee.
Darn paparazzi, can’t get away from them anywhere! (Mom deer looks exceedingly annoyed. Hustles bebbehs away.)
Just in time for summer, Disney re-releases Fawntasia, with a new score by Buckstehude.*
*Anyone who gets that last pun is a bigger musical nerd than I am!
Spooked mama and babies turn to run and fart in our general direction.
What are moose and elk ‘antlers’ called??
Further fun deer fact: They are deee-licious! And it’s not just me; mountain lions, coyotes, and wolves have children of their own to feed. Nature is a wonderful, endlessly fascinating subject — but not always a very cuddly one.
@Katiedid: Both moose and elk are deer (Cervidæ), if you’re referring to the “only deer have antlers” thing.
SO cute! I didn’t realize the does had udders.
Luuuurve the action shot of them proinking away.
Katiedid – They are called antlers.
So beautiful! I love the little deer tocks as they run away!!!
What lovely photos. I especially LOVE the last three pics! So beautiful.
So beautiful! What great photography.
Buckstehude! 260Oakley, total music nerd.:). They tried to get Doe-vorak, but he was busy! Prelude to the afternoon of a fawn (faun) anyone?!
Oh! Isn’t that just the cutest thing you’ve ever seen?
Wow. Just wow.
That ear-range-of-motion thing is especially evident in the last shot – mama’s running/looking forward, but her ears are definitely pointed backwards!
Buckstehude! 260Oakley, total music nerd!
They tried to get Doe-vorak, but he was busy
“Prelude to the afternoon of a ‘fawn’” anyone?!
We live on a golf course with a protected green space. When we first moved in a couple of years ago, we thought all the deer were “the cutest thing ever!” We were fascinated that we could sit on our deck and watch them just a few yards away….until they ate 600.00 of landscaping twice in one season. Cute, but man, that is short lived when you have to pay for their “buffet” tab.
Most of these are going right over my horns! Music nerd I’m not, but I’ll be Bach later – want to see teh tiny head with feet again!
Ah, Graeme, I knew my peeps were out there! Doevorak was good friends with Bearlioz, I believe.
KittehMama, I know how you feel a little bit. I was working in my garden last week, and saw a doe and fawn walk by. Mama and baby were not startled at all when she noticed me. I could imagine her saying, “Good work humans, tending to my buffet table, carry on!” A week later a third of my cabbage was eaten with tell tale hoof prints left behind. Good thing I hate cabbage, and planted it just for her…
Little Bambis. So cute.
“Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime. For example: You’re walking along, minding your own business. You’re looking neither to the left, nor to the right, when all of a sudden you run smack into a pretty face. Woo-woo! You begin to get weak in the knees. Your head’s in a whirl. And then you feel light as a feather, and before you know it, you’re walking on air. And then you know what? You’re knocked for a loop, and you completely lose your head!”
I was gonna be all snarky and post dialogue from THAT scene (the awful one, the one that traumatizes kids for life, you know the one I’m talking about), but I couldn’t do it. Made me cry.
These creatures are beautiful, even if they do eat all the pretty flowers.
Surely moose and such have antlers too.
Deer are the most gorgeous creatures! The mother is so handsome. I can’t think of another word, she’s just so graceful and lovely!
I’m kinda scared by deer now. I saw a clip where I saw it’s baby in a residential area and the mother came and tried to take it back safely and all of a sudden she just charges this dog whose sitting down nearby and starts trampling on the poor thing. So even though it’s cute to see them they will do anything to protect the baby! (I think the dog was still alive but I’m not sure)
Super awesome shots and awesome deer-facts! Thanks for satisfying mah needs to feel smart and mah needs for cute!
Apparently the idea that moose are in the same family as this dainty damsel of a doe, is as confusing as it is a-moose-ing.
Awesome shots. You didn’t mention which camera/lens/etc you used though so we can try and replicate
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How cute!!!… reminds of Bambi.
Hauntingly beautiful pictures of mommy and babies.
I just became a vegetarian in April – eating anything with a face would cause me unbearable distress.
Ahem… Moose have antlers too you know…
From what I understand, twin fawns are rare. Twins can be a strain on mama, but these delicate beauties look very healthy and beee-u-tiful. So it seems that mom is handling the double duty just fine.
So glad this dear deer family lives in a wildlife refuge and can live without the threat of being hunted… at least by the humans…
Pic #6 – check out that knobby-kneed, “I’m gonna be a supermodel one day” look. So stinkin’ cute!
(attributes “stinkin’ cute” phrase to Theresa)
Me = “D’awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww (etc)”.
It’s amusing to me that they fled down the path and not into the woods lol… They must be pretty comfortable where they live! We moved last year and at this house we see coyotes from time to time. No deer eating the garden here… I don’t think it’s because they’re being eaten, I just think it’s because the coyotes keep the deer behaving as prey animals (ie, not insanely brazen & walking down the middle of the street).
@260Oakley
Would that be Dieterich Buxtehude, the Baroque organist?
Reminders to all confused by only deer have antlers .. as has been previously mentioned moose, deer and elk, etc. are all different types of Deer! (Cervidæ),
Read your information here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer
Thanks go out to brtkrbzhnv Comment 10 for the original linkage.
Ladies and gentlemen, 260Oakley has done it again. I got the pun and I have even heard some Buxtehude music lately! Yay WGBH in Boston over the Internet on my computer Yay! Yay! Yay Deer! Yay yaay fawns! Does anybody to the “yay” anymore, since our beloved [Ed.] has gone to use his special skills for us all? How is he doing, anyway? Did I miss any updates?
Love this!
Also, thank you for the Hovertext VeganPeace.
Clever girl….
They have the knobbiest knees known to man.
I dub thee “Flag” and “Football.”
A couple of folks missed the earlier posts. Elk, moose and caribou are also deer. The moose is the largest of the deer family. But they have antlers because they are deer.
@Kallisto and Katrina
If it ain’t Baroque, don’t fix it.
I can never decide who has the better name, Buxtehude or Bakfark (Renaissance lutenist).
hindlegs of both bambis in the air!
My gosh, what large utters!
Oh. That’s embarrassing. Udders.
Also.
Longtail,
“An udder is an organ formed of the mammary glands of female quadruped mammals, especially ruminants such as cattle, goats, sheep and deer. The udder is a single mass hanging beneath the animal, consisting of pairs of mammary glands. In cattle there are normally two pairs, in sheep, goats and deer there is one pair, and in some animals such as pigs there are many pairs.” (-’Udders’, Wiki)
Most often you hear about the ‘udders’ of the bovidae family (cattle, sheep, goats, antelope/gazelles, yada yada).
Last picture needs sounds effects! *boing boing boing*
Too beautiful for words, and an amazing feat of photography. Mostly all the pix I take of deer look like the last one!
To the person who said deer don’t usually have twins: where I live the mule deer come down from the mountains with their new fawns in July, and they more often than not have twins. We have a silk tree in our yard and the babies eat the flowers like candy, between glurps from mom.
Superb camera work!
Oh, gosh, the ears. The eeeeeeeaaaaaars!!!!
Actually, twins and even triplets are not that uncommon, but are more prevelant in older does:
Older does average almost two fawns – 67 percent have twins, 21 percent have single fawns and 12 percent have triplets. This means that about 140 fawns are born for every 100 does in the population. With the triplets I have seen around our place, there is always one that is smaller, because there are only one set of mammary glands, but 3 babies. One always seems to be less strong.
Deer may not be native to australia but that doesnt mean there arent any here in Oz.
They are similiar to the asian deer- plenty of them in the mountains. Sambar I guess.
In lowland swampy areas there are Hog deer. I’m not sure about other types.
@ Katrina: during the past couple of months, I”ve had to relegate my CO viewing to “when the entire world has ceased spinning” which has only been about 3 brief visits per week.
However there *was* a Theo Update from Mrs. Theo ….am uncertain under which post….my best GUESS as to when, would be that it could have been about 2 weeks ago…and presently I’m unable to access any computers at all on Fridays or the weekends so most likely it was a weekday post (unless I ran across it on a Monday following?)
good luck.
[@katrina
according to jaye, theo has been kicking ass and taking names.
he's been scoring really well on shooting and physical tests, writing long, loving letters home. jaye said he was competing for the prize of a phone call home, but i can't remember if he got it or not.
he's even been spotted darting amongst the CO underbrush. tiny hoofprints have been spotted.
--M.i.T.]
Shouldn’t this be tagged hooves?
thank you for the compliments, everyone, it was a beautiful experience and i’m appreciative CO shared it with you all. here’s a bonus picture, check out the tongue and eyelashes: http://www.flickr.com/photos/doubleagent/4746957201
I will cast magic upon this creature and It will be mine!
aw these are so lovely! thanks for posting.
I live where there is an abundance of these creatures. They can be very destructive. 1. do not plant “non-native” plants – all of them are delicacies to the white tail. (and axis.). Better yet is the “rock” yards. Easy upkeep and deer don’t eat rock. LOL 2. They do not carry insurance cards and its not “IF” but “WHEN” you hit one that you learn this… (*sighs – last count 8. Insurance costs – several hundred dollars in replaced front end parts. not fun. even a low deductible is a PITA with this.) 3. Too many animals = slow starvation for the creatures. Painful death. I would rather they be culled to keep the numbers in check. Aka = “hunting”.