Bambi and Boyfriend

[Harold Gough]

Even in 2020, when these were taken, this female Muntjac had been resident in our garden for several years.

Leica/Lumix 100-400mm at 400mm, f8 and f7.3, ISO 5000, hand held.

Edit: The third image required a lot of editing to remove some garden tools.

Harold

[Ian]

Fabulous - I assume you have earned a degree of trust? Is she still around?

Ian

[Harold Gough]

Fabulous - I assume you have earned a degree of trust? Is she still around?
Ian

Yes, sort of. The male is an infrequent visitor and more nervous. If I get closer than about 20 feet she will trot off into the bushes. A couple of times recently, while I was round a corned from her, she had her mouth in the small bucket I use to carry bird seed to distribution locattions around the garden, like a nose bag. These images were shot through the open, full height, window of our lounge.

Some foxes can be quite trusting but not the current one.

The fox (more the previous one) and the female deer sometimes feed a few feet apart on our nearest lawn. I will get that image one day but we are losing the light pre-breakfast, mornings now.

Harold

[Ian]

That really sounds lovely!

Ian

[Harold Gough]

That really sounds lovely!

Ian

The romance apart, they eat alost everything we try to grow in our garden: flowers (except daffodils and a few others inluding bluebells), fruit (including tomatoes), veg. She likes the wild bird seed too.

I was putting the cheaper chicken seed mix down for the pheasants but the local mink seem to have eaten them recently.

Harold

[Melaka]

They are an invasive alien species and are spreading pretty rapidly countrywide. They are quite tame and frequently seen in our village. Occasionally the dog brings back one of the young.