Deer ID please :)

[sponner]

any nature experts out there can ID this deer species for me ?

Found a mile or two up the road (farmed I assume), I didn't know they were there.

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young male deer and herd by sponner (staffs), on Flickr[\img]

[StephenL]

Re: Deer ID please

Look like Roe Deer to me. I doubt that they're farmed. Tasty, though!

[David Morison]

Re: Deer ID please

Certainly not Roe, Fallow methinks.
David

[Falk]

Re: Deer ID please

Good old Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) IMHO.

[sponner]

Re: Deer ID please

Lol, all the options I had considered and couldn't make up my mind

[bredman]

Re: Deer ID please

Yup. Red deer imo.

[David M]

Re: Deer ID please

I don't know if these are farmed but they are farmed in the UK and North America.

[gregles]

Re: Deer ID please

No visible ear tags so wild I would think.

[sponner]

Re: Deer ID please

I assumed they were farmed as we don't live in the wilds of Scotland or anything, on reflection the field looked more like a mowing field rather than one you would put stock into and it was adjacent to a large area of woodland. i will go back at some point and see if they are still there.

[bredman]

Re: Deer ID please

They are either wild or part of a private herd in a deer park. I did read once that Cumbria and other Northern upland areas are the only parts of England left with true ancient wild herds of red deer, and that anywhere else in England they were wiped out and reintroduced/restocked with non-resident (European) herds. This would have happened centuries ago.

[David M]

Re: Deer ID please

Good point about the ear tags.

There's a herd at Lyme Park.