A white-tail deer keeps a watchful eye as her young fawn grabs a snack Tuesday morning. The pair were spotted along County Road 24, also known as the Van Lynn Road, with an older fawn seen nearby. According to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resource’s website, white-tailed deer mate during the months of October to December. The male deer, or buck, plays no role in raising fawns. After the female deer, or doe, gives birth to one or two fawns and nurses them, she leads them into secluded habitat within her familiar home range. The doe then leaves them alone for extended periods of time, returning periodically to nurse them and to relocate them to new secluded habitat. This pattern will continue for up to three weeks. By this time the fawns are mature enough to keep up with their mother and able to race out of real or perceived danger. DNR officials urge people who may find fawns hidden by their mothers to stay away and leave them alone as the mother will return to the fawns.