Muntjac Deer Distribution

[webley701]

Seen a couple of years ago in south-east Cheshire

 

[Hayduke]

Vermin!

 

[fivehole]

....also recently sighted in the Macclesfield area

Saw one Cheshire/Staffordshire border about 30 years ago but they don’t seem to be increasing.

 

[AGR]

Well you lot are the lucky ones. I'm waiting for them to start holidaying in Devon.

 

[Erik Hamburger]

General feedback from my circle of Stalking contacts in The Cotswolds (Gloucestershire) is:
'There is more and more deer everywhere, and they are getting more and more difficult to cull in any numbers' - in particular Fallow.
Re Muntjac, in the last few months there are multiple reports of how many Muntjac are suddenly seen, including in places that have seen years of very hard culling on a 'Cull every deer of every species and both sexes that is Legal to cull and safe to shoot" basis.

 

[Artemis Deerstalking]

Any in south Wales?
I'm working there this summer. Do I take my rifle?

 

[mudman]

Up the southern Humber bank. Still to cross the bridge into East Yorkshire

 

[stalker.308]

im seeing a good few here in mid wales now which is mad!

atb

Not after an exact location but are we talking Welshpool way, further south or more west?

 

[glasshalffull]

No munties in NI that BDS map was wrong twas just a pipe dream or they'd be a good few about now and there isn't

 

[marineboy]

Over run with them here in Oxfordshire

 

[8x57]

Any in south Wales?
I'm working there this summer. Do I take my rifle?

Where exactly are you referring to when you say south Wales? South Wales could be half of the principality.

 

[Koenig]

We have the albeit not in huge numbers just over the old Severn bridge in Monmouthshire. I haven’t shot one yet but other syndicate members have.

 

[Foxyboy43]

No munties in NI that BDS map was wrong twas just a pipe dream or they'd be a good few about now and there isn't

Hmmm. Professor Jamie Dick might give you an argument on that one - especially in the Ards Peninsula area - apparently!

 

[TringSaint]

Hello,


I'm curious about where in Southern England Muntjac are most densely populated. I know they seem to be prolific in the Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridge area. Are they as densely
populated in the west of the country? Oxfordshire/Wiltshire/ Gloucestershire etc?



Best,
Tom

Hertfordshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire - need I go on?
They have spread pretty much everywhere
Go to the BDS site and look at the distribution map and you will see it is very widespread.

Muntjac Deer - The British Deer Society

Muntjac deer are a small but stocky species of deer that stand at around 0.44 to 0.52 m tall at the shoulder. Find out more...

bds.org.uk

 

[levigsp]

Trust me they are there. Around Carrington lakes

They are also inside the pfizer factory grounds sandwich

 

[TringSaint]

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.

Apparently the lock-down cull rate was just 30% of what it should normally be so rather then the total pop being reduced by 30% it was only 10% and that covered two seasons. So you can imagine that deer populations have grown and for territorial deer this means spread.

 

[glasshalffull]

Hmmm. Professor Jamie Dick might give you an argument on that one - especially in the Ards Peninsula area - apparently!

He's been spouting that dribble for 20yrs. As I said the evidence is the lack of munts here now unfortunately.

 

[User00036]

They are also inside the pfizer factory grounds sandwich

Anti vax Munts? I keep saying they're out for world domination. Now seen in Finland, blockading Vihtavouri factories. Large group in Norwich hanging around Earlham Cemetery at dusk, displaying Satanic tendencies.

 

[8x57]

We have the albeit not in huge numbers just over the old Severn bridge in Monmouthshire. I haven’t shot one yet but other syndicate members have.

As you say Koenig not in any great numbers but spread throughout the county and into adjoining counties. They've been around for years but I've always wondered why we haven't seen any great numbers of them as most stalkers say if you manage to see one then it's already too late and there are hundreds of the little blighters?
Perhaps the majority are concentrated on certain areas as I know of one chap just outside Monmouth who advertises muntjac stalking so presumably there must be a decent concentration in his particular locality.

Not so long back I saw a muntjac buck dead alongside the A40 between the Wye bridge and the Gibraltar tunnels in Monmouth, there was also a case of a muntie stuck in railings in the centre of Chepstow.

There seem to be a large number of intermittent sightings of Muntjac over a very wide area of SE Wales and the border country.

 

[JTO]

Well you lot are the lucky ones. I'm waiting for them to start holidaying in Devon.

I doubt they are far away.