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Bungo

Joined: 21 Dec 2011
Posts: 354
Location: Wye Valley

Posted: Wed May 02, 12 6:37 pm Post subject: Tempting
View from our bedroom window

boisdevie1

Joined: 11 Aug 2006
Posts: 3897
Location: Lancaster

Posted: Wed May 02, 12 8:45 pm Post subject:
Where's the machine gun when you want it.

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Wed May 02, 12 8:46 pm Post subject:
I often think that on he bus.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Wed May 02, 12 9:42 pm Post subject: Re: Tempting

Bungo wrote:

View from our bedroom window

You live in a tree house?

Nice view.

Bungo

Joined: 21 Dec 2011
Posts: 354
Location: Wye Valley

Posted: Wed May 02, 12 11:04 pm Post subject: Re: Tempting

vegplot wrote:

Bungo wrote:

View from our bedroom window

You live in a tree house?

I think the squirrels round here think we live in a tree

They spend an awful lot of time in our loft

matt_hooks

Joined: 01 Aug 2010
Posts: 312
Location: Lambourn(ish) Berkshire

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 12 4:20 pm Post subject:
Unusual to see that many Fallow of the same colour in one place. There's a few there that look like good cull animals.

Bungo

Joined: 21 Dec 2011
Posts: 354
Location: Wye Valley

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 12 6:39 pm Post subject:
Not unusual at all here

matt_hooks

Joined: 01 Aug 2010
Posts: 312
Location: Lambourn(ish) Berkshire

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 12 8:49 pm Post subject:
The number isn't unusual, but normally they're a variety of colours. To have so many melanistics together is very unusual.

Calli

Joined: 13 Mar 2009
Posts: 626
Location: Galway

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 12 9:30 pm Post subject:
Same round here - though the melanistics here are alot darker than these....one very prolific stag responsible round our way. These lot know when they are safe huh ?

matt_hooks

Joined: 01 Aug 2010
Posts: 312
Location: Lambourn(ish) Berkshire

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 12 9:40 pm Post subject:

Calli wrote:

Same round here - though the melanistics here are alot darker than these....one very prolific stag responsible round our way.

These lot know when they are safe huh ?

You mean buck?

Calli

Joined: 13 Mar 2009
Posts: 626
Location: Galway

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 12 10:03 pm Post subject:
I do - used buck in the next post That said he is pretty big and impressive....

matt_hooks

Joined: 01 Aug 2010
Posts: 312
Location: Lambourn(ish) Berkshire

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 12 10:18 pm Post subject:
Haha Calli, I still get them mixed up sometimes, and I've spent the last three years or so working with them!

Calli

Joined: 13 Mar 2009
Posts: 626
Location: Galway

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 12 10:35 pm Post subject:
Spent the last six years with red and fallow infiltrating the orchard And one scary night when a massive red stag - very impressive head gear- got stuck in a ditch and was being attacked by the terriers ( parsons and border) Was unsure who was most at risk for a while. I count deer of all varieties on a par with sheep and goldfish in the IQ chain

matt_hooks

Joined: 01 Aug 2010
Posts: 312
Location: Lambourn(ish) Berkshire

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 12 10:51 pm Post subject:

My previous job was in a smallish deer park with about a hundred and twenty head of deer, mix of Red, Sika, Fallow and a few Axis. We ran tractor rides into the park and the Red stags come up to be hand fed. A couple of the boys are so friendly I could lay across their backs, like you do with horses. Even then they were far from tame, and in full antler they were pretty scary. They can be fairly clever, in an animal sort of way, but I agree they're pretty dim.

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