A Future Top Stag?

He may be only young and without a decent headdress but everything else about him suggests that in ten years time he could command the moor at rutting time. His coat is thick, his neck is impressive and the eye is imperious.

But life is getting harder for those like him. The stags' compulsion to wander takes them occasionally onto private land and local landowners are keen to use their guns. And his present habit of staying with hinds could also be ill advised. It's hinds that are targeted by the RSPB's cowboys.