While going through the trail cam photos I noticed what I am going to say was a very close call. A coyote is stalking a mule deer fawn and the mom confronts him. I think this ended happily for the fawn. Lets look at the photos.
At 6:43 AM the fawn is passing through this grassy area. Mom must have passed through earlier. The camera never picked her up.
Same time and date the fawn is looking out front having moved a few steps forward.
Twelve minutes later a coyote is seen. He/she is sniffing the grass where the fawn paused and I think urinated.
Coyote is sniffing around and looking for the fawn I would guess.
Now you see the doe come back and apparently confront the coyote while the fawn I hope stayed hidden. I didn’t get anymore photos of this incident. I hope it turned out okay for the fawn. Coyotes do kill and eat fawns and yes, it is part of nature, but I have to root for the baby here. I think Mom saved the day.
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Wonderful footage! Yes, a coyote will take a fawn if opportunity presents, but they will rarely confront an adult deer. Coyotes average between 30 and 40 pounds. They aren’t big animals, so a deer is true competition, and does will protect their fawns as fiercely as mom coyotes will protect their pups, so your fawn was undoubtedly okay, with mom at her/his back. This time of year here, while the fawns begin to lose their spots, the coyotes are filling up on fallen orchard fruit and our ever-abundant blackberries. Coyotes are the most omnivorous of all canines. 🙂
You’ll appreciate recent sightings here: First, a neighbor and I walk once a week on a trail that takes us on a cut-through between our gravel road and another neighboring road. As we approached the outlet of the cut-through recently, I caught out of the corner of my eye something I had to believe was a bobcat bounding into the brush. The cut-through trail and much of the adjacent road is littered with cat poop, and on our way back, we noted fresh scat. As we say, “Cousin Bob is on the job.”
Next, we have a lot of ground-nesting bees here, and often we see the nest dug out. Our own game-cams caught a humorous episode in which skunk dug out the nest and raccoon and possum moved in for the larval bounty (with obvious objections from skunk, which you can imagine). Yesterday, while checking our gravenstein apples for ripeness, I noticed a huge scrape just beyond the tree. In it, a nest of these bees was quietly repairing damage. The scrape was the size of our double-basin kitchen sink. Not the work of a skunk. I’m pretty sure our (mostly elusive) friend black bear was responsible for this. (Also a branch was broken from the apple tree, so just sayin’. . . . 😉 )
Thanks for the detailed response! I so enjoy reading about others wildlife encounters, It sounds like you live in a wonderful spot. 🙂
It is!
Lucky captures! The mama mule deers in my yard don’t fear my dogs at all if one of their fawns is close by.
My heart was beating fast when I first went through these.