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<\/p>\nIn my\u00a0opinion this is the\u00a0cutest baby mammal of any species\u00a0I’ve ever photographed.<\/p>\n
I posted this photo in one of my\u00a0earliest blog posts, on June 10, 2011 and\u00a0quite\u00a0soon after I started blogging so I’d be surprised if any of my current readers have ever seen it.\u00a0Not many folks saw it back then either because that early in my blogging career followers of Feathered Photography were almost nonexistent.<\/p>\n
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The fawn, still\u00a0very young, was exuberantly running around its mama on Antelope Island,\u00a0apparently just for the fun of it. It was fast enough to be hard to track with my lens\u00a0and maintain sharp\u00a0focus, especially with the similarly colored and close grasses constantly grabbing my focus points. I like this running pose, the catch light in the eye (often very difficult to get with these little guys) and of course the behavior.<\/p>\n
But most of all I love those exaggerated baby features, especially the\u00a0large club feet and oversized, dark eyes. I\u00a0rarely see the feet of pronghorn fawns because\u00a0they’re nearly always\u00a0hidden in the grass but this running pose exposed\u00a0the front two\u00a0so they really caught my eye.<\/p>\n
In the late spring (end of May) there are presumably many pronghorn fawns on the island but I sure don’t see them very often.\u00a0Until they’re about this age\u00a0the fawns spend\u00a0the majority\u00a0of their time hidden in the\u00a0vegetation while their mother is out foraging. When they’re hunkered down low in the\u00a0grass they’re virtually impossible to spot\u00a0and the few fawns I do see\u00a0walking with their mother are usually a great distance away. Mama is\u00a0usually\u00a0very careful about stuff like that when her\u00a0fawns are involved.<\/p>\n
I was just lucky with this one.<\/p>\n
Ron<\/p>\n