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19-01-2009, 08:15 PM
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Cheers Chris, it's good to see someone who enjoys nature. 
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19-01-2009, 09:42 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Berkshire
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Hi Chris,
You are lucky to have found such a good natural hide. I love these creatures and am lucky enough to have them visit my garden - although I am often complaining on this web site that they eat all my flowers!
As Ron mentioned they are easily spooked so I mostly watch them from my house. If they don't know I'm there, they come right up to the house.
I have found that they love to eat the apples that fall off my apple trees. When it is a good year for apples, they are in and out of the garden all day and all night too (as I found out from my web cam).
I have found, after watching them for several years that they are fairly predictable. For example, in February a lot of them turn up all together. I have seen 6 of them at one time. For the rest of the year, they turn up in ones and twos.
The best time is in May when, if we are lucky, we see the kids complete with spots. Sometimes there is one but some years there are twins. The little ones stay with Mum for several months, getting braver and braver as time goes by. Last summers twins are still visiting with their Mum although they are quite grown up now.
In July, the buck comes back and hangs around the female for a few weeks for obvious reasons. At other times of the year he seems to keep himself to himself. He often just sits on our front lawn watching me watching him through the window!
Sometimes they disappear for weeks on end and other times they visit every day.
Now that you have found a good place to hide you will no doubt see all sorts of other wildlife, too.
Keep us posted.
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20-01-2009, 05:59 PM
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| | | Re: Roe Deer
hi chriscml, we once watched 2 roe deer playing like a couple of puppy dogs in the field behind our cottage. |
23-01-2009, 07:10 PM
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Hi,
That is fantastic to have seen such beautiful animals from the luxury of your own homes!!
All of your comments have been superb and very interesting! Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to help a wildlife newbie out!!
Thanks. |
23-01-2009, 07:15 PM
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