EMcC
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On Monday morning, 19th Feb, I had reason to visit a place between Newbury and Kingsclere.
I travelled from Andover using country roads for about twenty miles in total, none that would lend to any speeds and mostly just enough room for two vehicles to pass.
Starting from a few miles the other side of Andover the number of Muntjac road kill I saw, at least a dozen, possibly more, was horrific, most were easily identifiable but some were small deer too small for Roe and too early for Roe kids so naturally assumed they were also Muntjac.
On one particular stretch of less than a mile there were five.
What struck me was that they were all on the side of the road, so from that I gathered they had either been hit and killed and moved to the side of the road by the driver of a vehicle or struck and just made it to the side of the road and expired but also, strangely, there was no sign of any vehicle debris on the roads. There was the odd cock pheasant too.
I have seen numbers of Badger road kill when travelling in the west country but nothing like this.
I know there are large tracts of woodland in the area and some wide stretches of Hazel up to the road edges but surely there must be stalkers in that area that are aware of the massive population of them that need managing to help prevent such carnage, although I suppose the local garages are quite happy with the situation
Certainly something needs to be done as this sort of situation is not good for the Deer or members of the public seeing such carnage.
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I travelled from Andover using country roads for about twenty miles in total, none that would lend to any speeds and mostly just enough room for two vehicles to pass.
Starting from a few miles the other side of Andover the number of Muntjac road kill I saw, at least a dozen, possibly more, was horrific, most were easily identifiable but some were small deer too small for Roe and too early for Roe kids so naturally assumed they were also Muntjac.
On one particular stretch of less than a mile there were five.
What struck me was that they were all on the side of the road, so from that I gathered they had either been hit and killed and moved to the side of the road by the driver of a vehicle or struck and just made it to the side of the road and expired but also, strangely, there was no sign of any vehicle debris on the roads. There was the odd cock pheasant too.
I have seen numbers of Badger road kill when travelling in the west country but nothing like this.
I know there are large tracts of woodland in the area and some wide stretches of Hazel up to the road edges but surely there must be stalkers in that area that are aware of the massive population of them that need managing to help prevent such carnage, although I suppose the local garages are quite happy with the situation
Certainly something needs to be done as this sort of situation is not good for the Deer or members of the public seeing such carnage.
Posted in the wrong place, tried to delete without luck.
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