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This cold evening offered up a magnificent sunset over the snow-covered landscape. Just as I'd given up on photographing any animals, these two roe bucks showed up in a field. I had to adjust a little bit in editing to get the colours of the sky and the animals up front to both stand out.
Roe deer vary in coat colour throughout the year, being most distinguishable in the summer when their coats are bright rusty red. In winter, their coats turn a dull, slate grey colour. Both sexes have a prominent white rump and no visible tail. Females (does) have a small ‘tush’ or tuft of hair similar to a tail at the base of the rump patch during the winter. (British Deer Society).
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One of two Roer Deer in suburban Pitlochry munching on the local fauna. I should imagine not to popular feeding in people's gardens eating their flowers!
Roe Deer - Capreolus Capreolus
North Shian Argyll - Scotland
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The roe deer is a relatively small deer, with a body length of 95–135 cm (3 ft 1 in – 4 ft 5 in) throughout its range, and a shoulder height of 63–67 cm (2 ft 1 in – 2 ft 2 in), and a weight of 15–35 kg (35–75 lb). Populations from Urals and northern Kazakhstan are larger on average growing to 145 cm (4 ft 9 in) in length and 85 cm (2 ft 9 in) at shoulder height, with body weights of up to 60 kg (130 lb), with the deer populations becoming smaller again further east in the Transbaikal, Amur Oblast, and Primorsky Krai regions.[citation needed] In healthy populations, where population density is restricted by hunting or predators, bucks are slightly larger than does. Under other conditions, males can be similar in size to females, or slightly smaller..
Bucks in good conditions develop antlers up to 20–25 cm (8–10 in) long with two or three, rarely even four, points. When the male's antlers begin to regrow, they are covered in a thin layer of velvet-like fur which disappears later on after the hair's blood supply is lost. Males may speed up the process by rubbing their antlers on trees, so that their antlers are hard and stiff for the duels during the mating season. Unlike most cervids, roe deer begin regrowing antlers almost immediately after they are shed.
A group of about 7 deer I've been following recently, who seem to favour the open arable fields out in the fens
One more (for now) Roe Deer image from the weekend. This is one I spooked by accident. More images from the day on the blog - www.maxthompsonphoto.co.uk/blog/a-day-with-deer
Roe deer doe at dusk, during the days around midsummer you were able to shoot until 10PM with the light becoming softer the later it gets. This roe deer doe was very relaxed between the dunes feeding on bushes and grass untill a dog off leash chased her off. Although there is a leash duty along the whole coast of the national park most dog owners don't care and if you tell them about it they're getting mad at you. In the recent years it got even worse as the number of dogs is increasing steadily... the potential of conflicts will be growing - not every kind of wildlife will be fast enough to escape...
Nordfriesland, Germany