Sunday 9 October 2011

Red Stag in Bushy Park







It is the rutting season and unfortunately, this  year, several people have been attacked. The largest stags are gathering their hinds, so there is quite a lot of clashing of antlers and roaring. They are magnificent beasts. The one pictured above hasn't got a "harem". Maybe he's too old. It was a hot day and he was wallowing in a muddy area. There are fallow deer as well as red deer in the park, a few hundred altogether, roaming freely.

Trails in the Sky, 8am

This is the sight that greeted me when I awoke about two weeks ago. We live 8 miles from London Heathrow Airport. We are overflown like this all the time but the trails are not usually visible. How bad it must be for our health. No wonder we feel so much better and more energetic when we have the chance to breathe sea or mountain air!