Yesterday, my husband and I came across this white-tailed fawn in a park located very close to a school in Berks County. As I captured this picture with my phone, I had to wonder how this very young deer was killed.
Fawns stay with their mothers up to a year and was, in all probability, following her when killed. The place in question where this fawn was found is full of bushes and woods, an ideal bucolic setting for deer.
White-tailed deer are mostly nocturnal but can and have been seen during daytime hours. They eat mainly in the evening hours when the sun is going down or when the sun is rising in the morning.
Most likely, this fawn was killed at nighttime but I can’t be sure.
What is certain is someone purposely drove fast through a park where that isn’t permitted. Inside this park are tennis courts and playing fields which people use on a daily basis. One has to be careful not to hit another person, let alone an animal.
Deer are hit by cars every day on roadways. This was a road inside of a park where a fawn only several months old was needlessly hit by an inattentive and fast driver.
White-tailed deer have been seen in Reading and the surrounding suburbs due to the deer population expanding and the easy access to food.
This time a fawn lost its life due to a negligent driver in a park setting. Who will careless drivers hit next?
Let’s all slow down and be careful and more vigilant!
RIP little one. 🙁
That poor baby didn’t deserve to die. Why are people so heartless???
poor baby. That was cruel.
I watch people drive too fast through areas where deer crossing signs are. I’ve often wandered why they thought they were posted. That fawn shuld never of been killed.
I’m disgusted by this. People have no respect for life.