A Rare Sighting

(Raifman/Chronicle)

A white fawn has been spotted in an East Bay park.

The odds of spotting a white deer might be slightly better than that: Around one in 30,000 deer are born with albinism, according to California Department of Fish and Wildlife spokesperson Krysten Kellum. She identified [photographer Matthew] Raifman’s sighting as a black-tailed deer, which number around 500,000 in California — meaning roughly a dozen are albino.

Wildlife biologist Ellie Bolas hopes that the fawn and its mother and siblings stick close to East Bay populated areas, where there are fewer mountain lions. Good advice for us all.