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A doe and her two fawns were found dead in a field in Wainscott last week. COURTESY TERRY SULLIVAN
A doe and her two fawns were found dead in a field in Wainscott last week. COURTESY TERRY SULLIVAN
The State Department of Environmental Conservation is investigating the killing of three deer—a mother and two young-of-the-year fawns—in a Wainscott field last week.
The three deer were killed, according to residents, sometime overnight on Thursday, July 16, or Friday morning. Their carcasses were left in the field, which sits between Townline Road and Wainscott Main Street.
A spokesperson for the DEC said the deer were killed with a firearm, not a bow and arrow, and that the killing is being investigated as a possible case of poaching. The agency would not say what type of firearm was used.
Only shotguns may be fired on Long Island; rifles are outlawed except at enclosed gun ranges.
Deer hunting season on Long Island runs from October 1 through the end of December, though it was extended through the end of January this year.
Sagaponack resident Paul Brennan said that he heard what he thought were at least two gunshots about 1 a.m. on Friday and then saw the deer carcasses while jogging the next morning.
“I heard the shots early [morning] in Sagg … did my early-morning run, and there they were,” Mr. Brennan said in a message over the weekend. “To shoot two Bambis [and their] mom and leave them there is a tad barbaric for south of the highway.”
Michael Wright on Jul 21, 2015