We spent part of the week camping with two of our granddaughters at Father Hennepin State Park on Mile Lacs Lake. It was a wonderful time spent with family biking, hiking, swimming and spending time around the campfire. 

Father Hennepin is known for a large population of deer. Every day we enjoyed seeing several white-tails. In total we saw three moms with sets of twin fawns and two that had single fawns. 

Father Hennepin is also known for having albino deer. Three years ago, I photographed this doe as a fawn and now she has fawns of her own. Albino deer have a recessive gene that causes a lack of pigmentation in the body. Their hair is white; nose and ears are pink and pink around the eyes. When born their eyes are blue. 

Albino deer are incredibly rare in Minnesota with only one in 20,000 to 30,000 births. Each day we would hike or bike around to see if we could find the albino deer and each day, we found her. The color kind of stuck out in the green leaves. 

It was harder to find her fawns as she would hide them and bring them out only to nurse. It was only on the last day that we found out she had twins. Each time we saw her earlier she would feed one fawn at a time and hide the other one. She must have trusted us after five days and came out with both fawns. It was early in the morning and the sunlight was shining right on them.

Paul Sundberg