Had A Request From A Local Chap.......

[martin 332]

I had been asked to pop up our valley to a chap that has a small holding/very large garden where he keeps and breeds Shire horses,he has been getting a lot of deer in the lower garden early in the morning hammering the flowers and upsetting his missus,and in the evening he said they would wander along the top of the fields just below the wood where I have a highseat.Well,I turned up to find them both sat outside having a cuppa al fresco on a very warm evening,so I sat for a while for a chinwag,and while I was chatting I saw something on the very far valley top,a change of colour up against the woodland....as you do when you're 'switched on' and when I got the bins out of the truck I could then see a Buck a Doe and a follower and they both wanted to have a gander through the bins before I decided to stay to the original plan and not go after the Buck I had just spied as I also have that land.....well you guessed it,it was the wrong plan to follow and it ended up a blank evening.On my way back home as it got dark I decided to pop up to where I had seen the Buck on the next evening...........


I duly popped up the valley and made my way into what I call the 'Dingle',and as I got to the first gate I had a look through the bins and saw a pair of twins trotting down the banking and they seemed to be on a right mission,certainly not in the right mindset to slow down at all.Anyway I stalked up the nearside hedge which runs adjacent to a stream to see if they had just followed the fence down towards me,but no. I carried on to where I had seen the Buck the evening before,and then saw a couple of young Does feeding up the banking towards the field where the Buck had been,so I let them get out of sight and made my way up to the top,well when I got there it wasn't just twins but triplets,and they were in the field next to where I was making my way,but I love watching Deer of any sort and spent maybe half an hour watching them feeding and then I slinked through the wood to a vantage point where I could see the whole of the field where I expected to have some action only to see a Doe come over the horizon with a follower and then disappear away from me.This all took a while and as the light faded I did expect to see a Muntjac drop out of the wood and a pretty little Doe did just that,but as I don't shoot the Does I just spent 10 mins watching here until she scented me and flew off back up towards the wood barking like mad at me as she did so,they can be quite relentless once they start barking and even though it takes a good 20 minutes to get back to the truck I could still hear her going on.....and on.....and on!
So,eight Deer and still no bang,but that's how it goes sometimes....que sera sera.

[R.A.W 1,987]

good honest write up . I enjoyed that Thanks

[seprim 32]

Nice write-up Martin

thanks for posting

Andrew

[hutchey 147]

Good reading that, thanks for sharing Martin

[glogin 87]

Lovely countryside Martin

[firthy 54]

Nice read Martin

[charlie caller 3,654]

And that is the sort of thing the antis will never understand, how we as hunters can enjoy just been out and watching nature, as said it aint all about pulling the trigger, nice write up mate.

[Hywel 53]

Good post bud, I'm sure that larder will have some new additions soon

[SJB1956 0]

I very much enjoyed the read Martin, I can also relate to coming home with nothing in the bag after all the work you put in. How'ever you are right, it's not all about pulling a trigger.

[foxdropper 17,092]

I suppose i better come down and put something in the larder eh mate .You been up the market garden at all bud .Speak soon .

[martin 332]

Hey FD good to see oyu are back mate,where were all of the pics you were gonna send me?? Hope you did ok,and you may pop down on Thursday evening if you want mate I got a new lamp to try out!

 

Martin

[Yokel Matt 918]

Recognisance is time seldom wasted mate... Looks like the stock check for November is ok.