furrfu ([info]furrfu) wrote,
@ 2009-08-17 23:30:00
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D'oh! A deer!

Spotted in the garden on saturday afternoon, after I threw open the curtains in dismay, not wanting to face an afternoon's gardening. And thanks to her (let's assume it's a female deer, we wouldn't want to accuse The Sound of Music of LYING, now would we?) I had an excuse not to.

The next day she'd gone (I don't know how, I don't know how she got in, either) but she left behind a present of, er, lawn fertiliser. Thoughtful.

I've had a grass snake, a duck with ducklings, many birds and squirrels, and now a deer. All in a rather small garden. I approve.


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[info]sierra_le_oli
2009-08-17 11:13 pm UTC (link)
Wow! I presume this isn't common round your way.

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[info]furrfu
2009-08-18 05:46 pm UTC (link)
I knew they exist in the area (well, they exist over most of the UK) but I'd not actually seen one before. So to have one visit my own garden was most convenient. :-)

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[info]uitlander
2009-08-18 06:43 pm UTC (link)
Absence of antlers would suggest the female of the species (although at in at least one deer species [reindeer] the females have them too), although antler are shed at some point in the year. I forget when, but I could look it up if I knew which species you were looking at - roe fallow or muntjac at a guess.

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[info]furrfu
2009-08-18 06:46 pm UTC (link)
Almost certainly a muntjac. I believe the males have tusks (as well as, on occasion, small antlers, which they don't use to fight).

Says Wikipedia, anyway... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muntjac

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[info]uitlander
2009-08-18 06:58 pm UTC (link)
Antlers shed in May with the new set going into velvet ~August, so probably a female then.

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[info]trtl
2009-08-18 08:16 pm UTC (link)
Ah. That´ll be the one then this one was looking for...

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