Toughing it out in the snow

Roe doe, March

6 point Roe buck in March

Roe doe and her kid

Young Roe Doe

Young Roe buck in the frost

Roe doe and Monkshood

Roe doe couched up, her kid well hidden in the hedge

Roe kid

Close up of a young Roe buck, in velvet

Young Roe Doe Kid, sniffing a dandelion clock.

Roe buck investigating a squeak from a Buttalo call during the rut

Roe buck in full summer coat

Roe kid in full flight

Roe doe in Autumn sunset

Close up of an inquisitive Roe doe kid

6-Point Roe Buck in summer coat

Roe kid

Roe doe and her kid in the frost

Roe doe

Roe buck, couched up. Early March and in full velvet.

Mature Roe doe back-lit and close up!

Roe doe and kid at about a week old, photographed in mid-May 

This shot of 2 roe kids jumping a fence together took a lot of time and patience to get

Intimate portrait of young doe eating spring wildflowers

Roe deer are normally solitary animals.  However, during the winter they form small family groups.  I love the soft winter colours of the trees and fields.

Roe twin kids

Roe kid out on her own

Atmospheric shot of 2 Roe deer taken at sunset

Photographed in mid-April.  Antlers are just clean of velvet

A very close shot.  You can see the sunset reflected in her eye

Each year, Roe bucks lose their old antlers and grow a new set.  As they grow, they are covered in velvet.

Roe doe in meadow grass

One of my favourite pictures.  I ambushed him as he came out of a cover crop, resplendent in his summer coat.  I christened him Corkscrew Boy as a result of his twisted right antler.

Roe doe.  This is often all you will see when the crops are high

Roe buck scent marking during the rut

Atmospheric Roe buck, early morning.

Inquisitive Roe buck during the rut

This pregnant doe grazed to within 3m of me

Young Roe doe at last light. She walked to within a few feet of me.

An old and young roe buck photographed together in late spring

An old and young roe buck photographed together during the winter

Inquisitive young Roe Kid

Group of Roe deer

Yearling doe, summer coat change almost complete in spring wildflowers

Young doe caught in rape field tramlines

Magnificent Roe buck couched up in deep cover in a wood

6 point Roe buck from 10 yards

Roe deer form small family groups in the winter

5-Point Roe Buck in Spring

Roe buck sunning himself

Lovely mature 6 pointer Roe buck

Mature Roe buck just beginning to change into winter coat

Young Roe doe trotting up to see what I was!

Roe doe and one of her twin kids feeding

Young Roe doe kid feeding in a cover crop

Roe Doe and her Kid

Young Roe kid

Young Muntjac doe, oblivious to me as she walked past

A family group of Fallow

Muntjac buck, taken in May. Antlers cast and already beginning to regrow

Young Muntjac buck, oblivious to me watching him

Mature Muntjac buck

Close up with a Mature Muntjac buck

Around May each year, Muntjac bucks cast last year's antlers and immediately start to grow their next set.  The regrowth is normally complete by late summer.  This buck is in the early stages of regrowth.

Fallow Bucks

Fallow fawn

Fallow Bucks in Spring

Mature Muntjac buck in hard horn

Young Muntjac buck, withing a few metres.

Young Muntjac doe

For most of the year fallow male and female deer live in separate herds, coming together only for the rut in October

A mature Muntjac buck, highlightling the brow tines and split antler

Photo of a Muntjac Doe taken in thick cover in the middle of the day

Predominantly a grazing deer, Fallow will also browse on trees

Fleeting glimpse of this young buck as he crosses a path

A herd of fallow deer are capable of doing considerable damage to standing crops

Very heavy set buck.  The canine teeth are very obvious.

Distinctive 'palmate' shape to Fallow antlers

Muntjac doe and her kid

Fallow doe

Fallow Buck

Muntjac Doe in Winter

Fallow doe 'pronking'

Close encounter with a Muntjac buck

Muntjac kid, checking me out

Muntjac kid - a doe