Stags may be elsewhere. These are young, one and two years and they're running across the moor. Higher up they're freer from midges. A lot of ear flicking goes on when the midges are about. Running certainly gets rid of them temporarily but these were disturbed by a man walking early in the morning.
It seems the managers have been out counting the deer again. All part of fitting them into their business plan. I'm sure they're happy to be relegated from free spirits to cogs in the machinery of a conservation industry process. According to what I've heard they think numbers are increasing and the figure of 200 was suggested across the whole of the Eastern Moors. Hmm, I'm still sceptical about all data collection. Just how did they avoid double counting?
No sign of the group of hinds nor of the wandering stags but very early in the morning this pair was browsing in an idyllic scene.
If they are mother and year old son as I think may be the case, her shape suggests she could calve quite soon. Then what will he do?
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