Boddie??

[chunkychambers]

Is Boddies nickname Boddie because Boddie thinks Boddie looks like Boddie from Boddie and Doyle, eh Boddie??

Check out the profile pic

[Beryl]

I think that was Bodie and Doyle one D

What is Dear stalking? Please

[Boddie]

Yeah it was either that or Judge John Deed

[Beryl]

The latter I would think

[Barbara]

I thought it was something to do with the drink

[Beryl]

Boddie , a drink? I'm sure he does.

[wildone]

Of course he does. He often refers to having a "sherbert" or few. You surely didn't think that was a child's sweet. Anyway I think his name is because he didn't know how to spell Body.

[eeyore]

I always assumed it was from boddingtons bitter as in "another 6 pints of boddie landlord and an absinthe chaser with that, Oh and whatevver my freinds are drinking too

[Beryl]

Not beeing a drinking person I'm not up with these boddie drinks but they do sound fun, however one spells it
Chunkychambers says likes deer stalking on Dartmoor. I still want to know wht a deer stalker?

[Boddie]

A hat

[eeyore]

as in sherlock holmes , who probably wouldnt have been adverse to a pint or 9 of boddie if they had had it back then

[Boddie]

They did have it back then. It is 100 years older than Sherlock

[Deer Stalker]

Deer stalking is creeping up on deer with out them seeing you. It was the only thing I could think of when I registered

[eeyore]

Originally Posted by Boddie

They did have it back then. It is 100 years older than Sherlock

elementary

[Beryl]

Originally Posted by Deer Stalker

Deer stalking is creeping up on deer with out them seeing you. It was the only thing I could think of when I registered

I wasn't refering to your handle. Sorry. I looked at chunkychambers profile as others look at other's profiles and it say likes deer stalking on dartmoor'. I thought deer stalking was tracking and huting deer for the kill. That's why I was asking.

[eeyore]

I would imagine that in chunky's case it is probably tracking and stalking deer for a photo

[Beryl]

Yes that's what I was thinking . Guess I just needed to know really

[Deer Stalker]

I have a feeling Chunkychambers stalks deer with a rifle like I occasionally do, but you'll have to ask him.

[Beryl]

Oh I only wndered.
Do you kill them?

[Deer Stalker]

Yes. Not for the sake of killing something but for conservation reasons.

[Gill Catton]

Originally Posted by Deer Stalker

Yes. Not for the sake of killing something but for conservation reasons.

best kind of free range meat there is I reckon!

[Beryl]

Oh . Do they become too many? ( can't think of the right wording)
I was trying to ask chucky C but he's not on.
I was only wondering. I am just a curious type of person. I need to know the whyfor and wherefor about every thing that's all

[Gill Catton]

Originally Posted by Beryl

Oh . Do they become too many? ( can't think of the right wording)
I was trying to ask chucky C but he's not on.
I was only wondering. I am just a curious type of person. I need to know the whyfor and wherefor about every thing that's all

oh they really do there aren't really any natural predators and the young are very quickly too big for foxes in most species. In my local woods they really have done a lot of damage to the ground flora and understory just as they all try to find something to eat!

[Beryl]

Really? I'm not familier with dear hunting. I used to be very good a .22 target shooting when in the WRNS ( hundreds iof years ago) But I just couldn't shoot any thing live, So gave it up I couldn't even hook and octopus out of the sea in Malta and got black looks for letting it go (It was quite small) I just can't. I had a feeling deer caused a lot of dammage but wasn't sure

[Deer Stalker]

Venison is nice. No worries Beryl. Yes, Deer numbers can get very high very quickly. Deer are usually quite secretive so most people dont realise how many there are. Deer breeding biology is geered to them being predated by other mammals, formerly in this country man, wolves, possibly bears & Lynx. Now as we're the only carnivours left (with the odd fawn being taken by foxes & peoples dogs) deer numbers can get out of control & they can almost litteraly eat themselves out of house & home when numbers are very high. The only thing that controls the population then is starvation & disease, especially in hard winters. When deer numbers get high, the vegetation obviously suffers & this has a knock on effect on those species that depend on it aswell e.g butterflies & moths etc. It is true you do get stalkers that are interested in only in trophies, which is fine for them, but for me this is not what it is about. The idea is not to wipe out the deer but to try & manage them to get a good balance between the deer, the habitat & the other wildlife.