Lots Of Roe Deer On Trail Cam

Last week I moved my trail camera to a spot where my mum had seen two Roe deer last week. It was quite close to a cycle trail so I had to be careful to hide it so that it wasn't seen. I found a well used deer track, and walked along it until I found an opening where there was an obvious amount of Roe deer droppings as well as footprints and placed my camera on a pine tree. I dropped some apples as bait and left it for a week.

When I went to check it yesterday (Saturday) I was pleased to see that all the bait was gone. I checked and I got a family of 3 Roe deer (2 Does' and 1 button Buck), they obviously used the track often because I got them about 5 times over the week.

I managed the blend the photo of me, and the photo of a Roe deer together in the same place to work out the scale. 

I also got a Fox, a lot of Squirrels and a Rabbit.
 

Fallow Deer On My Trail Cam

Two weeks ago I moved my Trail Camera further out into the forest in a hope that I would find some Fallow deer out there. unfortunately last week I only managed to get 3 days of videos because the battery ran out three days into the week (I only go and check the camera every weekend because it is dark when I get home from school now). But this week I got plenty of footage. I got a Fallow buck with small antlers and a family of Fallow does. I used an Apple for bait and that is why he is foaming at the mouth in the second video.

the Buck stayed there for 7 minutes at 17.00 and then came back at 20.00 and then came back again at 23.00. 

 

then the next morning two does came to the camera. I am very pleased with these videos as before now I have only ever got Fallow deer on my camera once. hopefully next week I will get some videos in Colour.

Watching the Red deer rut

Last Monday me and my family went to watch the deer rut in Richmond park, London. As soon as we entered the park we could see a huge herd or around 20-30 Red deer along with 2 Fallow deer. 

The deer are very used to humans so they will let you get to about 10 metres away from them, but it is not recomended to walk up to them as they are such big animals and they could easily kill a person if they wanted to. 

On the first day we saw a few Red deer rutting, it was amazing how close the let me get to them to take photos. The following photo of them rutting was the only one that came out well, but it looked better in black and white so I did some editing. 

After it started to get dark we headed back to the car. Annoyingly, the gate was closed so we had to climb over it. 

That night we stayed in a premier in about 5 minutes away from the park. The next day we didnt see many of the deer rutting but we did see loads of the deer just sitting around chewing the cud. I got loads of photos, but unfortunately they were also all blurry. The following photo is my favorite. 

We also got some pictures of the ducks and geese.