Unusual piebald blacktail deer are appearing in Clallam County, with as many as four brightly marked fawns spotted this year.
PORT ANGELES, Wash. — Unusual piebald blacktail deer are appearing in Clallam County, with as many as four brightly marked fawns spotted this year.
A Lake Crescent resident photographed a healthy 8-week-old piebald fawn — marked like an appaloosa horse with a white, spotted body and dark legs and head — in the East Beach Road area, and two others have been recorded and collared by wildlife officials.
Other sightings of similarly patterned fawns and yearlings have not been confirmed but are likely to be authentic reports, according to wildlife biologists who began seeing the colorful deer a year ago.