One of those moments in the woods..

..when you think to yourself "that old log under that tree looks just like a massive fallow buck with a full head staring straight at me". Lifted up the binoculars and that's exactly what it was, less than 80 yds away. Melanistic, huge. Magical moment. He got up and trotted imperiously away with a female following. I was out spotting today not shooting. I followed them through the woods until I lost sight. Pigeons didn't help.

As I stood there in the trees contemplating the experience I realised a young roe buck in velvet was watching me from 50yds away. We stared at each other for five minutes or so before he wandered off with female in tow. What an afternoon! Best 30 minutes of woodland stalking I've had. Sorry there's no pics!

Although I did see this white fallow on my stroll home too.

 

[Foxyboy43]

Pure magic!

 

[hunta]

Excellent! Yesterday I was in a block of woodland that I manage. I shot some subsonic reloads with my 300 BLK and then went clearing rides with a slash hook. While doing this I saw a fallow buck. On my way back to my truck I bumped 3 roe. I then sat in a highseat with my BLK overlooking a feed site for the last couple of hours of light. My main target was squirrels. While approaching the seat I spied 6 fallow. I then shot 5 squirrels and saw a muntjac. So 3 deer species seen in a relatively short time.

 

[Scipio]

Yep,

Pure magic!

Yep! - Seeing deer (or any animal really) in the woods is special, even when not out hunting. Whilst walking the woods, going about my daily non hunting routines, I've riun into three roe over the last two days. And even though i wasnt out hunting, they all had me freezing, trying to figure out how i could get closer and respot them, haha.

 

[Ratel]

Was always nice just to sit or walk quietly about in woodland. When I used to manage the Roe on a large Cotswold estate and Fallow on a Warwickshire place I spent hours watching deer.
Nothing more special than watching a Roe doe in late May suckling triplets, with one poor little sod having to wait it's turn. Even just sat watching Fallow eating fallen crab apples in the middle of a 250 acre block of woodland, pushing and shoving each other.about without a clue that I was just sat 100 yards away. Roe can be fascinating at any time but far more interesting to see in deciduous woodland rather than evergreen blanket forestry.

 

[Hornet]

Wonderful, and quite what the anti's will never understand about us, it ain't all about pulling a trigger

 

[Ant ler]

Brilliant, that's what it is all about.