DEER SWIMING 2 MILE OUT ON DERWENT WATER

[Guest deerhound hunter]

ON MY HOLS LAST YEAR IN THE LAKE DICTRICT ,KESWICK,SO ME AND MATE WENT DOWN TO DERWENT WATER THOUGHT TO HIRE A A ROWING BOAT OUT ,SO WE ROW FOR HALF HOUR WE HAD DONE ABOUT 2 MILE OUT WE COME ACROSS THIS ISLAND SO WE ROW UP TO AND HAVING A LOOK ABOUT FOUND A FEW NEST BIG ONES AT THAT,SURE THEY OSPREYS,AND THE ISLAND WAS,NT THAT BIG SO WE MANAGE WALK ROUND QUITE QUICK SO WE JUST ABOUT WALK BACK TO THE BOAT AND THESE THINGS JUMP UP OUT THE THICK ,MY MATE THOUGHT THEY WERE KANGAROS AND SAID YOU DAFT TWAT THEIR FCUKING BABY DEERS,BE WEIRED I THOUGHT AT FIRST BUT WHAT A CRACKING PLACE TO HAVE YOUR YOUNG,AT FIRST THE MOTHER SOME WERE ON THE ISLAND BUT WANT DISSTURB THE YOUNG ANYMORE,SO WE LEFT THE ISLAND,ANYWAY SAME NIGHT WE HAD THE FAMILYS DOWN THE LAKE SIDE ALL OF SUDDEN WE SEEN FEMALE ROE COME OUT OF THE REEDS AND HEAD TOWARDS THAT SAME ISLAND SO I GOT CAMARA OUT AND TRYIED TAKE A PICTURE NOT THE BEST OF PICS BUT YOU CAN STILL SEE WANT IT IS,ANOTHER THING A THOUGHT WAS DO YOU THINK THE MOTHER ALSO GOT BROUGHT UP ON THE SAME ISLAND AND SHE FOLLOW IN HER FOOT STEPS.ANYWAY WOULD LIKE IF ANY BODY ELSE HAS WITNESS DEER SWIMMING THAT FAR OUT .THANKS FOR LOOKING AT THIS.........ATB....DH

[Guest deerhound hunter]

ANOTHER PICS THEY NOT THE BEST BUT YOU CAN STILL MAKE WHAT IT IS

[Guest deerhound hunter]

FEW MORE PICS OF THE SCENEERY,DERWENT WATER WHAT A TRAQUAL PLACE

[Guest deerhound hunter]

1 MORE PICS, MY KIDS TAKING A DIP

Edited June 20, 2010 by deerhound hunter

[fitchet 788]

never seen a deer swimming before have seen them in peoples empty pools before though

[bendrover 556]

ON MY HOLS LAST YEAR IN THE LAKE DICTRICT ,KESWICK,SO ME AND MATE WENT DOWN TO DERWENT WATER THOUGHT TO HIRE A A ROWING BOAT OUT ,SO WE ROW FOR HALF HOUR WE HAD DONE ABOUT 2 MILE OUT WE COME ACROSS THIS ISLAND SO WE ROW UP TO AND HAVING A LOOK ABOUT FOUND A FEW NEST BIG ONES AT THAT,SURE THEY OSPREYS,AND THE ISLAND WAS,NT THAT BIG SO WE MANAGE WALK ROUND QUITE QUICK SO WE JUST ABOUT WALK BACK TO THE BOAT AND THESE THINGS JUMP UP OUT THE THICK ,MY MATE THOUGHT THEY WERE KANGAROS AND SAID YOU DAFT TWAT THEIR FCUKING BABY DEERS,BE WEIRED I THOUGHT AT FIRST BUT WHAT A CRACKING PLACE TO HAVE YOUR YOUNG,AT FIRST THE MOTHER SOME WERE ON THE ISLAND BUT WANT DISSTURB THE YOUNG ANYMORE,SO WE LEFT THE ISLAND,ANYWAY SAME NIGHT WE HAD THE FAMILYS DOWN THE LAKE SIDE ALL OF SUDDEN WE SEEN FEMALE ROE COME OUT OF THE REEDS AND HEAD TOWARDS THAT SAME ISLAND SO I GOT CAMARA OUT AND TRYIED TAKE A PICTURE NOT THE BEST OF PICS BUT YOU CAN STILL SEE WANT IT IS,ANOTHER THING A THOUGHT WAS DO YOU THINK THE MOTHER ALSO GOT BROUGHT UP ON THE SAME ISLAND AND SHE FOLLOW IN HER FOOT STEPS.ANYWAY WOULD LIKE IF ANY BODY ELSE HAS WITNESS DEER SWIMMING THAT FAR OUT .THANKS FOR LOOKING AT THIS.........ATB....DH

i think youve probably got your distance wrong mate (probably felt like 2 miles) .but yes i have seen roe jump into cannals and rivers on a few occasions,and every time there has been a lurcher in pusuit ,purely by accident of course

[Meerihunter 7]

Seen it a good few times, a few years back someone on here had a post up about lifting a hind in there boat while fishing several mile out to sea.

 

Here's a video of a roe taking the plunge to get away from my Salukis. Needless to say the deer wasn't harmed just very well exercised, it was left to go on its way when it eventually came back ashore.

 

Video

 

 

 

Edited June 20, 2010 by Meerihunter

[johnny boy68 11,725]

Seen it a good few times, a few years back someone on here had a post up about lifting a hind in there boat while fishing several mile out to sea.

 

Here's a video of a roe taking the plunge to get away from my Salukis. Needless to say the deer wasn't harmed just very well exercised, it was left to go on its way when it eventually came back ashore.

 

Video

 

 

 

Your dogs jacked then fella

Only kidding mate

[CorkyJohn 808]

Did your dogs jack at the first breaker? Didn't look like they were very keen?

[Meerihunter 7]

Did your dogs jack at the first breaker? Didn't look like they were very keen?

 

 

My apologies, I should of said;

 

"Here's a video of a roe taking the plunge to get away from my, not very keen, jacking Salukis." but then that might of detracted from the amount of pleasure people like you clearly get from making derogatory comments.

 

No doubt your dogs would of dived in and dispatched the deer whilst treading water and retrieved it back to the shore.

[scothunter 12,609]

Did your dogs jack at the first breaker? Didn't look like they were very keen?

 

 

My apologies, I should of said;

 

"Here's a video of a roe taking the plunge to get away from my, not very keen, jacking Salukis." but then that might of detracted from the amount of pleasure people like you clearly get from making derogatory comments.

 

No doubt your dogs would of dived in and dispatched the deer whilst treading water and retrieved it back to the shore.

lol

[thurso jack 3]

if that deer hadnt made the water it looked in a lot of trouble

[Guest deerhound hunter]

it would have been on a plate

[JohnGalway 1,043]

Deer swim parts of the Corrib here.

 

Different animal, but, when my Dad was a fisherman he roped a cow which was swimming out to sea. She'd left the herd which had been swam from the mainland to an island nearby. Where Dad roped her was over two miles from that island.

[Meerihunter 7]

It would seem to an innate escape strategy to many spieces of deer as I'v heard about Fallow plunging into a lake to escape Salukis aswell. Also if you believe all you read the reds would also get to water where possible when being pursued by deerhounds of old where by they would wait to finish any dog foolish enough to follow out of their depth.