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Lovely Ian,thoughts are 2 fold really think fallow, absence of palmate? maybe second or 3rd year before the antlers have really developed? Ian I haven't chased fallow for a few years now, bit unsure, should know.................@Lepus Mark could you help here.confirm ID for Ian please.
Second we don't get fallow close to home but Roe sometimes very close.....Ian years ago we watched a doe stay in the lee of a big hedge for the day. the weather was horrible blowing a hoolie torrential rain.the hedge gave her a dry window, you could visibly see the rain and the and that little quite place she found .
your fallow reminds me of the longest time I've ever spent watching a roe.
Second we don't get fallow close to home but Roe sometimes very close.....Ian years ago we watched a doe stay in the lee of a big hedge for the day. the weather was horrible blowing a hoolie torrential rain.the hedge gave her a dry window, you could visibly see the rain and the and that little quite place she found .
your fallow reminds me of the longest time I've ever spent watching a roe.
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Hi Dale and Stuart.....
Yes, we are very fortunate to have such a great outlook from the back of our house - we regularly see Roe deer (as you say Stuart they don't often stay very long), sometimes Muntjac, but rarely Fallow*...I'd certainly be interested in a proper ID, so thanks for reaching out for this on my behalf Stuart. This chap hung about for a couple of hours...even untroubled when a Buzzard and Red Kite started knocking seven bells out of each other a few metres above where he was sitting enjoying the sun.
*We had an odd experience about 10 days ago. It was a gloomy foggy morning and my wife recieved a call from the hospital to sadly let her know her father had just passed away. As a said above, we rarely see Fallow deer, but 10 minutes after the call a mature male appeared out of the fog, walked towards our garden and then disappeared once again into the fog.
I only have a crappy phone picture to record this (it didn't seem appropriate to be scrambling for a proper camera with a big lens given the circumstances!)
Yes, we are very fortunate to have such a great outlook from the back of our house - we regularly see Roe deer (as you say Stuart they don't often stay very long), sometimes Muntjac, but rarely Fallow*...I'd certainly be interested in a proper ID, so thanks for reaching out for this on my behalf Stuart. This chap hung about for a couple of hours...even untroubled when a Buzzard and Red Kite started knocking seven bells out of each other a few metres above where he was sitting enjoying the sun.
*We had an odd experience about 10 days ago. It was a gloomy foggy morning and my wife recieved a call from the hospital to sadly let her know her father had just passed away. As a said above, we rarely see Fallow deer, but 10 minutes after the call a mature male appeared out of the fog, walked towards our garden and then disappeared once again into the fog.
I only have a crappy phone picture to record this (it didn't seem appropriate to be scrambling for a proper camera with a big lens given the circumstances!)
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Ok I'm leaning more and more towards fallow now with the extra info ^^^ Think second year but would like Mark to chime in
Lol and aswell as being a stu,.stuart implies art or dog house tis too much to bare.................................always reach for the big lens..................tis wildlife ya never know what might happen
Ian our thoughts for your good lady loosing her dad life is unfathomably hard right now for many............... strangers can think of each other
Lol and aswell as being a stu,.stuart implies art or dog house tis too much to bare.................................always reach for the big lens..................tis wildlife ya never know what might happen
Ian our thoughts for your good lady loosing her dad life is unfathomably hard right now for many............... strangers can think of each other