Tom Hansen and his family discovered this fawn in their yard in Superior on the morning of May 31.
"I was awakened Saturday to a loud noise that I thought was a bird screeching," Hansen wrote in an e-mail to the News Tribune. "Turns out it was a fawn crying out, caught in our backyard soccer net."
He called it "Mia Hamm" after the well-known U.S. soccer star. And, yes, Hansen is the KBJR-TV/Channel 6 and KDLH-TV/Channel 3 sportscaster.
Hansen and his wife, Kris, managed to free the fawn from the netting, and it rejoined its mother. A second much smaller fawn, however, died later the same day.
Whitetail deer typically drop their fawns around June 1 in this part of the world. Department of Natural Resources officials recommend that if you see one, you leave it alone. Its mother is probably nearby.
