Nature Notes From Crater Lake
Volume 21, 1955
Breakfast Interrupted
By Orville Page, Ranger Naturalist
On the morning of July 31, 1954, I was making my way toward the rim
of the lake. As I approached a meadow area, I chanced upon a Columbian
blacktailed doe and her two fawns. The interesting part of the
observation was that the two fawns were busily nursing the doe. As
quietly as possible the camera was made ready, but the ever-alert mother
sensed the presence of an intruder. Before a picture could be taken,
mother and offspring were bounding gently and gracefully off through the
meadow, leaving a disappointed photographer but a greatly enriched
observer of nature.
