Deer photographed on our visit to Studley Royal yesterday. We went to see the rut, but nothing much was happening and the only shot of rutting behaviour I managed was the feeble, half-hearted clash of antlers in the final photo.
I’ve tried to identify the species of Deer in the media tags, but having read up about them I’m not confident about the identifications. Apparently the Sika and Fallow hinds are very similar looking and the Sika and Red Deer interbreed, hybridize, to such an extent that some people maintain that there are no, or very few, pure native Red Deer left in most of the UK.
