{"id":108,"date":"2007-09-18T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=108"},"modified":"2007-09-18T23:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T04:55:00","slug":"mother-and-fawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"Mother and Fawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sigridsanders.com\/birding\/uploaded_images\/BraveheartAndFawn-737367.jpg\" ><img style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sigridsanders.com\/birding\/uploaded_images\/BraveheartAndFawn-737365.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>The fawn that was born in May to the lame White-tailed deer that lives in our part of the neighborhood looks like it&#8217;s doing well. Early yesterday evening we saw both mother and fawn browsing near the edge of the woods just below our tomato garden. The mother \u2013 the one I call Braveheart because she\u2019s lived for so long with one crippled front leg \u2013 looks a little thin, but otherwise seems fine, with bright, alert eyes. The young one looks strong and healthy, and has lost most of its spots, with just a few still lingering on its rump.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight they both browsed on grassy weeds as they made their way along their usual path across the yard and into the woods, but a few days ago we also watched the mother munching on a juicy, overripe tomato from our compost pile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fawn that was born in May to the lame White-tailed deer that lives in our part of the neighborhood looks like it&#8217;s doing well. Early yesterday evening we saw both mother and fawn browsing near the edge of the woods just below our tomato garden. The mother \u2013 the one I call Braveheart because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}