Muntjac Deer Distribution
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They have also been picked up on trail cams. Not far from the Ivor Williams factory in corwen
they must be waiting for a ride out 
Nimrod1960
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looks like they are also good swimmers !
Nimrod1960
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I would be very interested to see something more up to date.
My pet theory is that lock down and associated reduction in traffic etc gave all deer a breeding and migration boost, but in particular roe and munties.
sikamalc
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This map is out of date. There are Muntjac around Deal in East Kent, which does not show on this map.
The deer distribution survey was delayed by Covid.
Update on the Deer Distribution Survey 2022
The BDS deer distribution survey was delayed due to the pandemic, but will now start on 7th February 2022 in partnership with the Mammal Society.
bds.org.uk
muntjacmad
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im seeing a good few here in mid wales now which is mad!
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Heym SR20
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Looks like they are following the main railway lines and motorways northwards. Hardly surprising in that they are pretty much an undisturbed corridor of woodland with suitable crossings of major roads and rivers.
Just to give you the location. That particular junction was in the middle of a large birch wood of which remnants still remain either side of the A road. It was shot by our village keeper when he was a beat man for the Earl of Aylesford on Packington estate and I believe the animal is in Coventry museum. I remember hunting a pack of beagles near to what now is M6 junction 5 for the last time, meeting at Delwyn Levi's farm Water Orton, and exercising point to pointers along the line of the future M6 between 4&5.By the way that section was started in 68 not 58. I set out a Syphon sewer in 65 along the canal and had to avoid what was going to be Spaghetti junction foundations as an exercise for RE's.
Here endeth local history lesson.
Bavarianbrit
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Wiki - By 1971 the full route was completed between the junction with the M1 motorway at Rugby and the A38
Bavarianbrit
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They have a HGV license then?
I never saw any while I was out on the pigeons at Ledgers farms. Now it is history for me as I gave up my UK FAC a year ago.
sikamalc
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But theyve been there for in excess of 20 years.The deer distribution survey was delayed by Covid.
Update on the Deer Distribution Survey 2022
The BDS deer distribution survey was delayed due to the pandemic, but will now start on 7th February 2022 in partnership with the Mammal Society.
sikamalc
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Trust me they are there. Around Carrington lakesThey have a HGV license then?
I never saw any while I was out on the pigeons at Ledgers farms. Now it is history for me as I gave up my UK FAC a year ago.
....also recently sighted in the Macclesfield area 
And long may that continue, a full freezer year round....also recently sighted in the Macclesfield area
Bavarianbrit
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I will have a look around with the thermal when I come over in March then. It would surprise me as roe are not local which I thought might be because of the chalk soil in East Kent.
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