Tim writes: I spend lots of time trying to capture birds in flight but it isn’t often I manage to capture an airborne mammal, in this case a Roe buck. Though I suspect that right front hoof may be touching so not really airborne. I took this on 1st May not far from my house. …
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Tim Melling – Forest Musk Deer
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Tim writes: Forest Musk Deer (Moschus berezovskii) is a highly elusive, little-photographed species of deer that is classified by IUCN as “Endangered”, mainly due to hunting for its musk glands, used in Chinese medicines and for perfumes. There appear to be very few (correctly identified) wild photographs of this species on the whole internet and…
Get rid of lead ammunition from deer culling – Deer Working Group
The Working Group recommends that the Scottish Government should make a clear commitment to end the use of lead bullets to shoot deer in Scotland, carry out the necessary research and promotion to enable that change to be made after a transition period and, as a part of that, amend The Deer (Firearms, etc.) (Scotland)…
Lead-free venison from Scotland
I have written before about how those in charge of our state forests are leading on taking out the lead (Pb) from ammunition. FC England were definitely in the lead (see here) but FC Scotand were not far behind (see here). Here is the Forest Enterprise Scotland position on use of lead ammunition – Waitrose…
Oscar Dewhurst – Red Deer drinking
Oscar writes: I visited Bushy Park for the deer rut for the first time this year, as I had heard that the deer go in the water more than at Richmond Park. Sure enough this turned out to be true, with a large stag spending some time drinking in the early morning sun. I wish…
Wild food (25) – Red Deer by Ian Carter
It’s taking a bit of liberty including this image under the wild food banner, but the Red Deer certainly qualifies as a species that can be eaten. Indeed, some would argue that along with other wild deer it is one of the most sustainable forms of meat available here in Britain, albeit one that is…
Oscar Dewhurst – Three Red Deer
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Oscar writes: This is another image from Richmond Park, taken towards the end of September. It had been a cold night, so frost covered the ground, and I saw these three deer standing where I could get the flats in the background. Luckily they all kept the same pose for a while, giving me time…
Oscar Dewhurst – Red Deer stag
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Oscar writes: I’m now back at university for a research masters, but before I left I had time to squeeze in a couple of visits to Richmond Park for the annual deer rut. The morning this was taken on was one of those magical sunrises where the ground is covered in mist, so shooting into…
Oscar Dewhurst – Red Deer
Every autumn I try and spend a few early mornings in Richmond Park to photograph the deer rut. On this occasion the forecasted clear skies had not materialised, but were instead replaced with thick cloud. I still managed a couple of images, though, such as this stag roaring with grass in his antlers. Nikon D800,…
National Trust position on toxic ammunition and deer culling
The National Trust (E, W & NI), is a relatively small player in the world of deer culling – many hundred deer (perhaps low thousands) are culled on their very large landholding each year, but those are mostly with lead bullets at the moment (except where working in partnership with the RSPB where copper bullets…