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Postby past my sell by date » Wed May 05, 2021 12:57 pm

Last summer i had red deer resting in my garden,
https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=97307
but this morning I woke up to find two deer grazing peacefully: I thought they were Roes but stand corrected. They are not the same ones as last year which were older and had more prongs
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After a while the yapping of the neighbours dogs made them move out, but thery happily lay down in the field beyond
i crept out to to the fence and managed a couple more pics
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Re: Roe Deer

Postby jmarkb » Wed May 05, 2021 1:30 pm

Lovely! Those look like reds as well to me...
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Re: Roe Deer

Postby past my sell by date » Wed May 05, 2021 1:54 pm

jmarkb wrote:Lovely! Those look like reds as well to me...

But do Reds have that huge white area on their backside?
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Re: Roe Deer

Postby CharlesT » Wed May 05, 2021 2:27 pm

past my sell by date wrote:
jmarkb wrote:Lovely! Those look like reds as well to me...

But do Reds have that huge white area on their backside?

They are juvenile red deer stags and they do have a large creamy white bum patch.
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Re: Roe Deer

Postby past my sell by date » Wed May 05, 2021 2:30 pm

OK I bow to your superior knowledge . I guess they are still in their winter coats. Are they both stags? only one seems to be growing antlers.
anyway I'll edit it
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Re: Roe Deer

Postby CharlesT » Wed May 05, 2021 2:45 pm

past my sell by date wrote:OK I bow to your superior knowledge . I guess they are still in their winter coats. Are they both stags? only one seems to be groewing anters.
anyway I'll edit it

I thought I could just see the pedicles forming on the younger one. Immature stags would usually be in bachelor groups and hinds likewise in all female groups outside of the rut.
I think when we last conversed on this we concluded the one in your garden was likely to be from a woodland population which live in smaller groups or are solitary.
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