{"id":624892,"date":"2026-06-06T19:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T19:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/624892\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T19:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T19:50:14","slug":"beautiful-photo-captures-mother-deer-with-adorable-fawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/624892\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful photo captures mother deer with adorable fawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  A mother doe was spotted atop the Horwich Moors nursing her young fawn, in a scene that could be straight out of Bambi.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theboltonnews.co.uk\/news\/25859584.rare-sighting-fallow-deer-roaming-smithills-moor\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">deer<\/a> spotted were roe deer, the most common UK deer variant with an estimated population of over one million.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Roe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theboltonnews.co.uk\/news\/25216416.oh-deer-trapped-animal-rescued-radcliffe-fire-crews\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">deer<\/a> are generally timid animals, and tend to stay clear of open spaces during the daytime, as open spaces represent danger.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Deer on Winter Hill the following day (June 4) (Image: Carl Abbott)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The animals prefer to lurk in &#8216;refuge habitats,&#8217; such as forests, where they find it easier to hide.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They are more adventurous during the night and during the transitions between morning and evening, when there are fewer animals around.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Roe fawns take about 10 months to gestate before they are born, after which the mother will continue suckling them for around three months.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A baby deer will spend the first few weeks of life hidden away in tall grass under the watchful eye of its mother, a strategy designed to protect it from predators during the most vulnerable period of its life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mother doe was spotted atop the Horwich Moors nursing her young fawn, in a scene that could&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-624892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}