White-tailed Deer Fawn: Rachel Carson NWR, Headquarter’s Trail, Wells, Maine, USA, August 2025 — I had the most amazing and wonderful encounter with a mother White-tailed Deer and her two twin fawns yesterday at the Rachel Carson Headquarters. I was only 50 yards down the trail around the headland, before even where the loop begins and ends…kind of in the angle between the entrance and the loop. There were already a few people standing there looking into the woods with their phones up, obviously taking photos of something. And there they were. mom and two fawns, not 30 feet back in the woods, but in thick brush. I angled around looking for clear shots. Neither mother or fawns were at all concerned with the humans so close, nor by the passing (thankfully all leashed) dogs. What was more amazing to me is that the dogs seemed totally unaware the deer were there. Or maybe they were all just overstuffed and too domesticated to care. Eventually the mom and one fawn leisurely if cautiously walked across the trail and went down over the slope to the river below. I expected the other fawn to follow soon, but it stayed where it was, peacefully grazing on something close to the ground for the full 40 minutes or so I stood and watched, and worked for photos. At least a dozen people passed, adults and kids, and I pointed out the fawn to all of them. They were each as awestruck as I was, though they might not have realized how rare, what a privilege, such a moment is. Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 at various focal lengths for framing. Program mode with my birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Photomator.