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Lorrainelovesplants

Joined: 13 Oct 2006
Posts: 6521
Location: Dordogne

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 11 2:09 pm Post subject:
I like deer....but wouldnt want them on my land.... If you dont know the person, but he has contacted you through a 3rd person, cant you get some info from them on his 'method/ideology'?

cassy

Joined: 04 Feb 2008
Posts: 1047
Location: South West Scotland

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 11 6:23 pm Post subject:

A quick update -

We've still not had any significant damage here (nearly 2 months later) and so I'm not inclined to take any action.

The person in question didn't get in touch in the end, but I was grateful for the advice I got here at the time, as I felt more confident had they got in touch.

The deer seem more nervous around people now and take themselves off much quicker than they used to. We don't see them as much as we used to, perhaps once a week now.

Red deer are now out of season according to here so that takes any decision out of my hands for a while anyway.

Thanks all!

Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 25795
Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism

Posted: Thu Feb 24, 11 6:47 pm Post subject:

I've got a problem with Roe deer and, from what I've observed, they seem to like browsing on young foliage so the damage tends to occur in spring/early summer. Hopefully you'll still escape the damage but I'd keep a good eye out just in case so you know what might need to be done later in the season.

I've got a few examples of ash trees that have been bonsaied by the deer, the trees are still just a couple of feet high and the trunks about one cm in diameter - their neighbours that escaped the damage are well over 5m tall and their trunks15 - 20cm.

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