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If you love photography, you'll love this trip. Shenandoah National Park is located along the Skyline Drive in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. There are 105-miles of road through the park with 75 overlooks that offer many photographic opportunities. We will stop and enjoy some of the many beautiful vistas along the way. As we drive to our destination, at the lodge at Big Meadows, we will pass rock cliffs, drive thorough tunnels of trees and pass the mountain laurel and other wildflowers and ferns growing along the banks of the road. We will definitely see deer and other wildlife along the way, so keep a watchful eye when heading up the mountain.
We will arrive on Saturday morning at 8:00 AM. We will go out into the meadow where you will surely see and hopefully photograph fawns in the open meadow or the mother nursing her newborn fawn. This is really exciting to see this for the first time or any other time for that matter.
The doe usually leaves her fawn bedded down in the meadow while she goes off to feed, so you must be careful when walking over the meadow. It is very easy not to see the fawns until you are practically right on top of them, as the fawns will lie perfectly still and not make a sound unless it feels threatened. We always want to keep a reasonable distance from the newborn, so we do not to get this little creature stressed. Remember, Mom is always close by and mom and baby do have their ways of communicating to alert danger.
We will spend part of the trip photographing the many wildflowers and whatever other wildlife we may encounter and we will drive to one of the overlooks to photograph the sunset too.
Be sure to bring bug spray and check the list of other things to bring on this field trip.
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