Roe swimming across Aberystwyth harbour.
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bottletopbill
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Came on a migrant boat so there must be more
timbrayford
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Roes can swim long distances. I once saw a roe swim across the fjord here close to my hometown, a swim of between 2 and 3 kilometers. It came ashore close to our family cabin. I had observed it for a while wondering what it was, I thought it was something adrift that was blowed towards the shore by the wind. And discovered it was a roe deer. This fjord is busy with shipping traffic, ferries and cargo ships. It was insane. It stood there for a few minutes before taking off. I must have been exhausted.
Crunchy Peanut Butter
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I once saw one in the woods by the golf course, that was about 17 years ago
I caught a deer many years ago by the yomper statue on Portsmouth sea front, rspca recon it came from IOW, which was utterly rubbish it came off Milton common via portsdown hill, there is a green way all the way.
Crunchy Peanut Butter
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Borth is famous for it's diverse wildlife, wasn't there a lynx cutting around a few years ago?
Borth Animalarium was the source of the lynx.
As a child I remember a roedeer swimming to the small island of Barsø Southeast Jutland, the trip is about 1 mile happened in the late 70ies. And a young cow running of and swimming away from same island same summer, the cow was never seen again.
September 2013, Anglers met a big red stag several sea miles from shore on the North Sea from Jutland. The desperate animal could not be rescued into the small boat, so they killed it and towed it into the harbor at Hanstholm. A lot of questions from many interested people when they came back into the harbor.
November 2017, a red spiker was seen from shore, coming in from the sea just north of Frederikshavn. A lot of people on the popular beach run to watch it when it tryed to get out of the water
, so the animal got scared and swam out toward open sea again. 2 men jumped into a small motorboat and managed to get the very tired animal up into the boat (don’t know how, the water would likely have been cold), but the whole thing was seen by all the people on the beach. The animal was blindfolded but so exhausted it did not resist. It was released in the woods away from people the same afternoon.
September 2013, Anglers met a big red stag several sea miles from shore on the North Sea from Jutland. The desperate animal could not be rescued into the small boat, so they killed it and towed it into the harbor at Hanstholm. A lot of questions from many interested people when they came back into the harbor.
November 2017, a red spiker was seen from shore, coming in from the sea just north of Frederikshavn. A lot of people on the popular beach run to watch it when it tryed to get out of the water
, so the animal got scared and swam out toward open sea again. 2 men jumped into a small motorboat and managed to get the very tired animal up into the boat (don’t know how, the water would likely have been cold), but the whole thing was seen by all the people on the beach. The animal was blindfolded but so exhausted it did not resist. It was released in the woods away from people the same afternoon.
63
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Really? Wow.
I was regularly out foxing over several thousand acres around aber back then and never saw a sniff of a deer by lamp light, nor heard tell of any either.
@theroedeerguy
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Relatively common for Roe to be seen swimming across the Tay from Tentsmuir to Barry Buddon and vice versa.
Swimming Roe deer even get a mention in the Dundee City Council Deer Management document
Swimming Roe deer even get a mention in the Dundee City Council Deer Management document
TringSaint
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I believe (although a local might tell me otherwise) that the original sika deer in Dorset were released onto brownsea island near Poole but they all swam across the harbour and into the surrounding countryside!
Heard the same story
Crunchy Peanut Butter
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63
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It's 'written history' in a number of BDS publications and various books.
Not that being written down makes it necessarily true, but it seems as close to historical fact as anything else
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