Reference `the wiganer`.
Unfortunately what this chap has said may be true.
Whilst `The Nab` is not part of a Deer Park it is recognised as a Deer Forest and is part of the area known as Martindale deer forest.
Hundreds of Red Deer are on those mountains in that area. I know it well having taken foreign paying guests there a few times on behalf of the owner and photographed the Reds there on numerous occasions.
I stalked land over that boundary since 1961 , some of which changed hands three or four times over that time-scale.
I must have been doing something right as I had the stalking all those years.
Recently due to the very bad weather and virtually no grass Reds have been found dead in the Kirkstone area also.
This is a serious ongoing problem with no end currently in sight as the hind cull targets for the area had been filled by the end of the shooting season.
I do not know `the wiganer` but unfortunately what he states is likely to be the truth.
A farmer friend who now culls some of the areas previously managed by myself has spoken to me today and confirmed deaths on what are now HIS areas.
HWH.