Post your random nature photographs.

[Wapinschaw]

A bit of a shower passing to the North. Cross-referencing weather radar to Google Maps indicated it was about 6.5 miles away.

 

[willie_gunn]

 

[John Gryphon]

A very dark, bleak,overcast and rainy day with patches of fog on the higher ground. Deer moving from a patch of heavy bush to the main bush didn't give much other than to fire at will regardless of the conditions and as the rain came down harder I pulled the pin. A couple of those stags have got the makings btw as long as Mr Thermal and Mr Spotlight don't see them.
To top it all off two k`s away whilst coming out I looked ahead and saw a big spikey jump the track @60 yards.


I was very surprised that this hind sussed me. Perhaps she saw movement or my shape however I was down low and had my SamHunt O/Green coat on and she gave me the OK.

Three boys.

Bottom bloke is fixed on an unseen deer,probably another stag but who knows!

 

[John Gryphon]

 

[Klenchblaize]

K

 

[Klenchblaize]

K

 

[kieran222]

Sat in our garden watching this lad wandering around our garden fence trying to get in.

 

[John Gryphon]

Spent quite a bit of time getting to a photo point as it took three tries to get through the blackberry canes to cross the creek. Then had one of those stalks where the target is out of sight for several hundred yards until the ambush site is reached 500 yards later. Jumped three more below me on my way and their actions got this 'just rubbed out' stag to his feet. Note hind ear a foot left of his nose.






On the way back I sprung this spikey standing in the sun,,maybe 350 off me.

 

[Piranha451]

 

[sako751sg]

 

[Mickeydredd]

Up visiting the M-I-L (without the rifle!!!) and the boys put in an appearance. Absolutely demolishing the young Oaks and Rowan in the garden.

 

[Mickeydredd]

Not helping my carbon offset….

 

[Wapinschaw]

This bird (buzzard?) flew over my place this morning. It is dragging something behind, I think it may be a falconer's jesses or it has some foliage or rope tangled in it's legs. It did not seem to be in distress, it was soaring fairly high and hung around long enough for me to get into the house and pick up my camera although I only got on photo before it went. I have reported it to the local wildlife rescue charity in case it is an escapee.

 

[Mike1979]

Not helping my carbon offset….

Good footage.... they don't appear to have the same concerns about their environmental impact as us

Will the MIL allow you to "educate" them? My mother wouldn't even let me deal with the cock pheasant that kept attacking her

 

[sh1kar]

 

[Mike1979]

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Its a hard life

 

[willie_gunn]

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[Mickeydredd]

Good footage.... they don't appear to have the same concerns about their environmental impact as us

Will the MIL allow you to "educate" them? My mother wouldn't even let me deal with the cock pheasant that kept attacking her

I've shot two in the garden in March this year, the problem is they sold the farmland surrounding the house off for forestry a number of years ago so I can only shoot them in the garden....despite seeing groups of them just over the wall regularly!!

There were 5 stags in the garden one day last week and a further 6 over the wall, I really should visit more often.......

 

[Mickeydredd]

This bird (buzzard?) flew over my place this morning. It is dragging something behind, I think it may be a falconer's jesses or it has some foliage or rope tangled in it's legs. It did not seem to be in distress, it was soaring fairly high and hung around long enough for me to get into the house and pick up my camera although I only got on photo before it went. I have reported it to the local wildlife rescue charity in case it is an escapee.

Its greenery to line the nest

 

[willie_gunn]

Sorry for the earlier brain-fart! Here's the video of a roebuck I staked into this morning - though only with the iPhone on maximum zoom.