Deer in central Oxford

[Cyres]

Last weekend we visited my daughter and stayed at St Agnes college in Oxford.
On a visit to the botanical Gardens we caught a glimpse a roe and when I peeped through a boundary slated gate I was eye to eye with a munty. !
In the evening we saw a fox and another munty on Magdalen cricket ground out field. Also I have never seen so many grey squirrels.
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[The Singing Stalker]

I have seen all in the middle of Newbury, so not surprised.

 

[TringSaint]

I used to shoot in a big back garden (10ac) in Oxford and it was teeming with roe and munties.
The owner sold up just after Covid which was a real shame as we lost the shooting on there.

 

[Heym SR20]

There have been herds of fallow deer for a very long time within the grounds of Magdalen College, and I think in Worcester College as well. Hardly surprising there are Roe in there. There are also plenty of Muntjac these days all over.

 

[Cyres]

Yes we saw the fallow when we punted through the deer park. They were in the college side of the park. No fawns to be seen.
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[WalkedUp]

There have been herds of fallow deer for a very long time within the grounds of Magdalen College, and I think in Worcester College as well. Hardly surprising there are Roe in there. There are also plenty of Muntjac these days all over.

No fallow in Worcester College sadly, or I would have had them.

 

[TringSaint]

There are loads of fallow in shotover park!!

 

[Cranhill]

I’ve also seen a Muntjac in a garden in the middle of Stratford on Avon

 

[Loki]

Hi

I have seen a Roe doe (daughter videod it on mobile comms device in a Close) wander into a suburban road on outskirts, probably between 2 graveyards and Iffley Village- it didnt want to come onto my premises only 70yds away .

Magdalen College is where a herd of (enclosed) park Fallow are. Boranical Gardens are a stones throw from Christchurch College where I have seen Roe, with many tourists wandering by, on the sports pitches.........admittedly some 50+yds aways!

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[ABL]

I live 10 miles away. The place is heaving with Munties - they’ve bred in our garden at least twice to my knowledge in the last 2 years. The population is still rising steadily I would guess.

 

[Greenmist]

I helped a friend to clear a building site in Oxford of muntjac and roe, when I first managed an estate in Oxfordshire the place was infested with literally everything, 2-3 foxes a night, 2 muntjac a day, magpies in larsens whenever they were set, 100 squirrels a month wasn't uncommon

 

[Nickb]

I used to stalk Blenheim Palace, the place was alive with deer , squirrels , rabbits..