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.

1 comment:

labrown said...

Wow! Not sure I would want to be on the business end of those antlers!