Is this a button buck in this photo?

[Nathanael_Greene]

Not a hunting question per se, but I was out hiking at the Fort Worth Nature Center recently and saw a doe with two fawns.

Mom is in the foreground; in the shade behind her is one of the fawns (lighting was not my friend in this photo). It looks like a button buck, but I can't quite tell.

What do you think?

 

[Bitmap]

I can't tell, but then I'm just about blind.

 

[Rottweiler]

I don't think so. just looks like some black markings on her head. If I look real close at the belly I think I see teats

 

[Rokman]

I don' think so either. I think the black color is throwing you off.

 

[Bearhands]

It's doubtful that 2 fawns would be "hangin out" with a button buck.

 

[Legionnaire]

Doesn't look like it to me ...

 

[herohog]

I downloaded the pic and played with the brightness and contrast and can't see any horns/buttons, just the same dark spots as the mom.

 

[koja48]

Looks like a young lady to me.

 

[buck460XVR]

chances are one of the two fawns was a buck. In the wild, a titch more male fawns are born to does than females, so just by using poker odds, one of the two is male.

 

[Redhawk1]

No, looks like a doe to me.

 

[Griz44]

Does not have a buck body build either. It's a doe.

 

[rondog]

I don't know, but mama's kinda cute.....

 

[1/4MOA]

looks like an old slick head to me.

 

[paintballdude902]

maybe a couble of huge ticks lol

i found one on the barn dog the other day the size if a dang quarter

 

[scythefwd]

Doe. I can't explain it, but to me the shape of a bucks head is a little different from the doe. I can't say it is scientific, but I have called it accurately from a profile as the buck was climbing a hill. We couldn't see the antlers until the head crested, beautiful 6 pt. I can say I haven't been wrong yet, but dang I wish I had been last season. Doe walked dadgumn 15-20 ft. in front of me on a buck only day..... grumble grumble.

 

[deerhunter61]

it looks like a doe to me.

 

[Austinite]

Are we talking about the same deer?

The deer in front with the black markings is clearly a doe.

The deer in back is, imo, probably a girl. The head isn't particularly flat on top, and it doesn't have the slender, feminine look to it.

 

[Nathanael_Greene]

The deer in front with the black markings is clearly a doe.

Um...yeah.

That's why I wrote: "Mom is in the foreground; in the shade behind her is one of the fawns..."

It wasn't a trick question.

Anyway, consensus is that it's not a button buck. Thanks for your input, everyone.

 

[Art Eatman]

Stipulating health and adequate food supply and all that, the whitetail doe always drops two fawns, and they're always one male and one female. SFAIK, that's as close to a guaranteed "always" as you'll find.

Art