I’m trying out a new occasional blog series today. I’ll post a photo and tell the story of how it happened. I visited Savernake Forest in Wiltshire recently. I was actually hunting around for woodcock, a bird I’ve only ever seen briefly once. The like clearings inside mixed or coniferous forest, so I was walking off track, following deer trails – they are useful, but deer can jump fences and ass under low brambles, so I can’t always go where …
Tag: roe deer
I’ve renamed this annual round-up as ‘Encounter of the year’ because my emphasis these days is less about photography and more about appreciating the plants, birds and animals that Britain has for what they are. There were times in 2024 when I thought my year would be a blank sheet of paper. It could so easily be called the ‘year with no summer’, or perhaps the ‘year with too much weather’. I have a garden filled with nectar-bearing flowers, but …
It’s said that humans like kittens and other young animals in part because we’re programmed to respond to the eyes of babies, which are large in proportion to their small heads when they are born. Large eyes are something we key in on, that arouse our protective instincts. Whether that’s true or not, some animals get an automatic “aaaaah,” rather than an automatic “uuurrrgghhh”. One of those is the doe, the female deer. Is that the reason why I, …
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