Little and Large

Some of the largest and some of the smallest of Blacka Moor's wildlife experience real January weather for the first time.

At the Old Wall Caff there was brisk business and competition for the best places. With colder times to come it's as well to stock up when you've got the chance. Some may only live a few months so this winter may be the only they see.

Red deer are our largest wild animals, but not all of them are large. The young deer are having their first taste of a favourite occupation. Their elders have often before used this sheltered spot to await the rising sun after a clear night in winter.

They will need to get closer together when the hardest frosts arrive although they've already developed thicker coats which get more untidy the better they do the job.

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Perhaps I should add that I must be one of very few people of my generation never to have seen the film Bambi. The idea of cartoon sentimentality, or any other kind, has always repelled me and I would still avoid it like the plague.   And yet, and yet... These live and genuine wild creatures this morning were affecting as anything seen on Blacka.

Is this where the dangers of exploiting wildlife for one's own reasons starts?