A Bumper Crop
19th September 2018
It's been a few weeks since I have been over to Algy's fields at Themelthorpe. A combination of factors including the weather conditions, it being a very, busy time in the fields for harvesting, fertilising and drilling, not to mention an inconvenient, personal, immobility issue, following a spectacular, flight through the handle bars of my bike! Good job I am built to bounce!
So it was with great joy in my heart that I got back to the fields this week to see what was happening. Within an hour of sunrise I had already identified three of the four types of deer known to wander at will. I counted three Chinese Water Deer, a couple of Muntjacs's barking in the woods and as well as a couple of solitary distant Roe Deer. The best discovery of all were three, different family units of Roe Deer Mums and twins!
Two of the three family groups were in the same fields so I knew I wasn't double counting and the third family are such a distinctive rusty red that there was no mistake. So a real bumper crop of babies!
Revisiting a couple of days later I identified one set of twins to be two males who now independent from their Mum. Although she let's them stay relatively close she is keen to send them out on their own and given to a head butt or two to send them on their way!
I am hopeful of some better shots of the "boys" amidst the now ripening millet.One did oblige for a quick head shot that I put on the home page slideshow and have no doubt that he will soon grow into those ears!
So it was with great joy in my heart that I got back to the fields this week to see what was happening. Within an hour of sunrise I had already identified three of the four types of deer known to wander at will. I counted three Chinese Water Deer, a couple of Muntjacs's barking in the woods and as well as a couple of solitary distant Roe Deer. The best discovery of all were three, different family units of Roe Deer Mums and twins!
Two of the three family groups were in the same fields so I knew I wasn't double counting and the third family are such a distinctive rusty red that there was no mistake. So a real bumper crop of babies!
Revisiting a couple of days later I identified one set of twins to be two males who now independent from their Mum. Although she let's them stay relatively close she is keen to send them out on their own and given to a head butt or two to send them on their way!
I am hopeful of some better shots of the "boys" amidst the now ripening millet.One did oblige for a quick head shot that I put on the home page slideshow and have no doubt that he will soon grow into those ears!