This season I'm hunting a friend's place in Shackleford Co. Just about every doe seen on TC has a pair of twins tagging along. I know twins are common, but this year it looks like in most cases both fawns made it to mid September. In mid August we found a doe dead in a fence near a feeder. That TC showed what I assume is her twins showing up by themselves at that feeder. However last time I checked there were numerous pics of a lone fawn at the corn. His/her sibling must have fallen to the yotes.
Better than last year. Had only 3 fawns on entire place. Year before, every doe but 3 had a fawn tagging along with 5 sets of twins. This year looks like somewhere in between, maybe 8-10 fawns.
On my place this is the worst fawn crop I have seen in the last 6 years. 2 years worth of prolonged drought has left the brush extremely thin with no good fawn cover. Most of the does I have seen don't have fawns with them. We have found 3 fawns dead already. Anybody that has gotten any rain this year should feel extremely fortunate because there are still areas of the state that are in desperate need of moisture.
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