You won't see this in Manhattan

I live in New York only part time. The rest of the time I'm still in the Midwest, and something happened today that you won't ever see in NYC. This adorable fawn had somehow found its way inside my fenced-in back yard and couldn't get back out. My neighbor alerted me to it when he was mowing his lawn. The little creature eventually managed to squeeze through two of the slats in the fence and head for the tree line separating my subdivision from another.

Later in the day, I was reading a book on my deck when I heard something behind me. It was the mama deer come to find her fawn! She had silently bounded over the fence and was standing about 15 feet away from me. This mama doe was not shy. She stood her ground as I slowly got up and approached her. She seemed to be accusing me of hiding her baby, she wasn't leaving without her. Minutes later she turned and hopped back over the fence but did not run away altogether. She lingered and made a grunting noise like she was calling for her fawn. Did you know deer produce sounds? I feel confident the two found each other considering the mother's courage and determination.