British Deer Survey

I recently came across this link to the British Deer Survey for 2016. As well as sending them some Boggy Brae sightings I thought I would collate a few of my old pictures of roe deer encounters.

The first summer we were here, while the garden was still very overgrown, I took this pic of a roe deer buck under what I call the umbrella tree. The branches would reach the ground in weeping willow fashion if roe deer didn't keep them cropped to just above their nibbling height.

The umbrella tree hasn't change much over the years apart from being a little bigger, but the pieris to the right of it nad hardly visible in this photo now look like this:

A couple of years later, during the time when we had geese, a white roe buck appeared one morning. He seemed unconcerned by my cautious approach with the camera.

Bertie, the gander, first hissed at the deer and then looked snootily away. The deer was unimpressed.

One of the best encounters was when I saw a doe and fawn from bedroom windows. The doe was chewing cud and the fawn was exploring. It came round to the north-west side of the house (and I shifted rooms),

The fawn looked right at me in the
upstairs window

then it looked back at mum, began to return to her, and looked back at me before going behind the bank again. Clikc on the pics to enlarge them.

In September 2014 these two heard the camera shutter click and spotted me at the landing window. More pics from that encounter here.

And I have watched roe deer sunbathing in the copse beside the garden.