Amanda Bashford’s walk to her town’s Community Gardens plot turned into a rescue mission after she heard crying in the woods and followed it to an orphaned fawn, reuniting the newborn with two siblings that had already been taken into care after their mother was fatally struck by a vehicle.
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The discovery came after a deadly deer crash on Graniteville Road in Westford, Massachusetts. Officers found two newborn fawns near the road and, according to The Westford Villager, brought them to a state-permitted wildlife rehabilitator. After Bashford found another newborn hidden in the brush, the three siblings were reunited.
Westford Animal Control Officer Kirsten Hirschler said Westford regularly gets reports of deer being hit by vehicles. “There was a call for a deer hit by a car, which, of course, is not too uncommon, unfortunately, in Westford,” Hirschler said.
Although they were only about a day old, the first two fawns appeared to be in good shape. “They still had their umbilical cords attached,” Hirschler said. “They were very new.”…