Doe a deer
Well we have seen quite a lot of the deer this week. The other night the adult doe was eating under our tree when the stag turned up. We watched eagerly to see what would happen.
The stag stood several feet away just watching the doe. She just ate and basically ignored him other than the odd glance. After about fine minutes he moved a bit closer, she did nothing, then he moved a little close, she did nothing. Finally he moved to within a couple of feet of her, bowed his head and charged. She ran off and then rather than eat the food which is what we expected, he just wandered off into the woods. Very strange – obviously it was a man thing!
Last night we had four deer in the garden, two younger ones and two older does.
This morning whilst eating breakfast and watching the squirrels burying their nuts, one of the young deer literally leaped into the garden. We haven’t seen them in daylight since we had the snow.
