Fallow rutting

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22 hours ago, foxdropper said:

Kick started by cold weather .Cant beat being there with any of the larger deer in the rut ,love it .

I’ll miss that this year ! ..being out mid October when the rut is in full swing watching the big boys jousting is special , sat out and watched them , many times declining a shot , just to see the going big boys having a go ..

Used to make me laugh when you’d have a few prickets trying to lord it over the ladies , only for a young buck to put the wind up them and chase them off , just as he was trying it on a mature buck would see him off double quick , before the real big boy appeared and he would disappear as quick as he appeared., .very occasionally you would witness to good bucks getting at it , and watch in hoar as they did battle before one gave up ...had some great early morning memories over the last twenty years ..I planned to film them one year not to far back but got so engrossed with what was happening I forgot to turn the bloody camera on ...