Walking along the paths of Blacka sometimes the only way that you're aware of the presence of deer is the antlers protruding above the bracken and shrubs. This doesn't apply when the deer are hinds. This one seemed to be compensating for the absence of antlers by acquiring an extra pair of ears.
The stags, two at least, had reacted to our sudden appearance on a windless morning by fleeing in haste, gallantly leaving the females to face us out. They probably thought we couldn't see them. Another local resident had been watching all this.
From the mud and disturbance it appears the deer had earlier been sporting in the water hole in a hollow, site of a small old quarry digging.
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