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Bedfords Park: red deer, woodpecker and devils coach horse

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In between my 2 visits to Raphaels Park on Saturday I went up to Bedfords Park. It was quiet, both in terms of people and wildlife, but in the deer pen one of the stags was dozing in the autumn sun

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Small copper butterflies and the last few photos from Richmond Park

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This is the last post on what I saw and photographed on Richmond Park. While wandering round we past a small plant with a few small copper butterflies on it

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red deer silhouettes

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It was such a nice day at Richmond park that we diecided to stay until sunset. The sunset wasn't that great but I did manage some silhouettes of the deer.

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Red deer rut in Richmond Park

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Carrying on with my photos from my visit to Richmond Park with Daniel Bridge (see his blog in the side bar), the main reason for visiting was the red deer rut. Although I saw very little actual rutting, the stags were certainly displaying rut behaviour. One thing I noticed lots of them doing on the day was licking their lips as they approached the hinds (females), as the first stag I came across was doing

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fallow deer buck in the evening sun

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On Tuesday I headed up to Richmond Park and got plenty of photos, but for now I'll I just post this one of a fallow buck taking it easy

New forest reptile centre and bolderwood

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During my visit to the New Forest I visited Bolderwood and the New forest reptile centre an couple of times. During the visits to the reptile centre I saw a captive adder

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Bedfords Park - red deer calf

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Back at the start of July I went up to Bedfords Park and the deer had given birth to at least one calf since I lat saw them.

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Deer in Fal Harbour

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There was interesting story in the Metro today of a deer trying to swim across Fal Harbour, Cornwall, UK.

(Original Metro article and photo from here. The article states it basked in the sun before attempting the swim and ended up returning back to the shore unharmed.

Im not sure, but I reckon its a roe deer, based on the fact its antlers are that well developed at this time of year. Of course deer swimming in the sea is not unheard of. Deer are strong swimmers and Sika deer move between Brownsea Island and the mainland across Poole harbour and there was the case of the fallow deer half a mile from (again) Cornish shores Cornish shores. Still its an intersting occurence and great photo!

Otter and Owl Sanctuary animals

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Carrying on from the previous two posts here are the photos of animals from the Otter and Owl Sanctuary. You can see exactly how tame the deer in the last post wasSue was trying to encourage it to nibble my bag, but it prefered her coat! :lol:

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deer close up

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Another one from the otter and owl sanctuary