Hello deer

With the weather continuing fine we have been able to head out each morning for our constitutional - good for exercise but also for keeping us sane in these troubled times.  We have explored all over the woodlands to the north of our village. 

As stated in the last post we are attended by flights of butterflies, Meadow Browns and Hedge Browns mostly, with so many Whites I am amazed there is a cabbage left intact anywhere.  Today we saw a Fritillary and also a Speckled Wood.  At last, a chance of a decent photo.

We often get a sighting of deer in these woodlands - often a muntjac, just slipping away.  But we have seen far more Fallow Deer this year than ever before, often just a doe or two, sometimes with fawns.  Last week we happened upon a herd - upwards of thirty animals grazing, including four full-antlered stags.  They were at some distance and we have only simple cameras.

Today a different grouping, closer to. Interesting to see the many possible colorations in the group.

Later we saw the antlered stags moving as a group through dense undergrowth.

Just working on a cabled waistcoat in Aran weight, not that it is the weather for it just now.