Blimey. Three posts in a week! Don’t worry, it’s only a short one. I think I’ve just seen a Sika deer. I was driving home from work at about 7.40pm tonight, and just as I passed the small wood that contains the Hawthorn Tree Sett a deer crossed the road in front of me and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘fallow deer’
Sika Deer?
Posted in That's not a badger!, tagged Bedfordshire, fallow deer, Sika, Sika deer on January 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Fieldnotes: 4th November – Siege Tactics at the Hawthorn Sett
Posted in Fieldnotes, tagged badger, badger watching, fallow deer on November 4, 2011 | 7 Comments »
OK. So far, I haven’t much success with the badgers at the Hawthorn Sett. I have yet to answer the fundamental question of how many badgers there are. If I can find this out, I can see how it changes over the year to come. It’s part of my overall master plan to understand more [...]
Fieldnotes: 4th May 2009 – How NOT to watch badgers
Posted in Fieldnotes, tagged fallow deer on May 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
After taking some pride in my fieldcraft a couple of weeks ago, tonight was a lesson on what not do when badger watching. The wind was blowing briskly from the south west today, so I approached the sett from the north east to keep myself downwind. There’s a climbable hornbeam tree at this end of [...]