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.