Deer, deer, and Bees.

So the day before yesterday we had a bee swarm decide to make a home in one of our gables, then yesterday we had a muntjac in the garden.

It's all go, here!

Oh, Deer!

Last night Compostman came running in holding Compostgirl's camera and very excitedly downloaded the photo he had taken on it...

Can you see the deer? on the path in the wood, in the middle of the shot?

We saw the deer again, right up by the garden fence , just as it was getting dark. We all went outside in the rain to see - Compostgirl in her pj's, all of us holding our breath, the cats very worried and thrashing their tails at this "intruder". The deer stood and looked at us and then quite calmly and slowly wandered off into the wood.


Today, we have been outside moving electric fence netting to keep the hens off the newly emerging potato haulms in the raised beds outside of the garden fenced area - it was nearly time to stop for lunch, when to my amazement the deer appeared again!

When I first saw him, he was only about 15 m away from me, right by the hen house and garden gate.

He slowly moved into the wood, apparently unconcerned by our presence,

We think it is a young male Fallow Deer.

Wonderful ( as long as he leaves my veg patch alone!)